CLASSIC FASHION

Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which a person dresses. It is the newest creations of textile designers and styles in behaviour. Fashion design is the art of application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories, footwear, or makeup. It is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has varied over time and place.

Classic Fashion describes your style perfectly in the clothing you choose, (natural fabrics with shoes and handbags), it plays an important role in our life everyday as everyone wears clothes, it makes our life colorful and changes our life with the time or according to the time. It's involved in our daily life e.g Musicians/celebrities needs fashion to look good and express themselves. While the entertainment industry work hand in hand in bringing history and culture into limelight.

Why Fashion is Important

• Fashion has been an integral part of our society, culture and nation. It is global and important because what you wear defines you.
• Fashion expresses your personality as it shows the world how you identify yourself. e.g. it could reflect you religiously, traditionally, culturally or otherwise.
• Fashion boost creativity in the mind of a fashionista - it is a creative work of art.
• Fashion embraces talent, it keeps history alive.
• Fashion changes with time. It is influenced by other arts like music, movies, architecture, civilization, society. What is in fashion may not be as much worn after few years. However, with changing layout of the modern society, fashion can be looked as a reflection of the era that once existed. Fashion is a mirror of history. It is both a predecessor of what has taken place in larger society, and a predictor of what will take place.
• Self-love: Knowing how great you look boost your self-confidence to a high level.
• Fashion serves as a means of communication. The style of dressing (clothes you wear, the brands you choose, the makeup or hairdo you have on, the shoes or accessories you put on) communicates to the world the person you are or where you come from.
• Fashion impacts & inspires society. Believe it or not, fashion impact society. When it comes to defining popular culture or modifying a misleading image, fashion plays a crucial part.
• Fashion commands authority. As it’s the simplest way to go about the tricky ground of making people look up to you with admiration and respect. “DRESS THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE ADDRESSED”.
• Fashion finds like minds. It helps people identify others who might be a bit like them. Be it a bar or a social gathering, your dressing sense would make you approachable or otherwise. Your fashion would drive similar people towards you. So fashion is a means to make new friends. When it comes to alternative fashion, you will see people following the same alternative clothing have own social groups and networks.
• Fashion is so versatile and diverse that it can appeal to every occasion. There is fashion for every setting or tribe.

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FASHION IS SOMETHING THAT CHANGES EVERY SEASON....AND WOULD BE A CULTURE IN YEARS TO COME - PATORANKS COLLECTION

Tammyranking as known by his social status, a model and fashion designer was asked few questions about his life, modeling and Fashion Designing and here's what he has to say:.....

Tell us more about yourself?

My name is Frank Tamunoemi, popularly known as Tammyranking, i hail from rivers state, but born and bred in Lagos, am 24 years of age, a model, an actor and also a fashion designer.

What motivated you to go into fashion?

Because am so passionate about fashion, its always been my passion.

You said you modeled before, can you tell us more about it?

Yea, i modeled and am still modeling. Modeling was fun tho, did lots of runways, fashion shows, few magazines jobs and few commercial jobs, it been great.

How long have you being modeling?

I started modeling 2015, so its been 3 years now

What are the challenges you’ve faced both as a model and as a Fashion designer?

Challenges that i have faced in terms of modeling are keeping fit always. It's challenging cause you have to maintain your skin complexion, and as well your face because thats the selling point.

The challenges have faced in terms of Fashion is bringing out or should i use the word interpreting a concept from the point of creativity to the point of creation, and from the point of creation to the point of selling.....making it possible

How does modeling and Fashion Designing relates with you?

Modeling and Fashion Designing relates with me well because am passionate about them both, so its been easy relating the two cause Fashion Design goes in hand with modeling.

Tell us more about your fashion brand?

My fashion brand was actually gotten from my nickname and my business partners name patorankscollections

What does your fashion say about you? 

(smiles) Too stylish

Who do you look up to in the fashion world?

S2 dynamics (Mr Sonny) he's a great guy and also my manager.

How do you see your fashion in the next five years?

Fashion is something that changes every season, but from my own view i think fashion is going to be a culture in years to come, It won't be at the extreme.

What's your Label name?

Patoranks collections

Aside fashion and modeling what else can one catch you doing?

You can also catch me acting, playing football or swimming.

Can we get your details?

Facebook ID: patorankscollections

Instagram: @patoranks_collections

Whatsapp: 08167048271

Email: patorankscollections@gmail.com

MUSIC IS A CHALLENGING DISCIPLINE BUT THEN THE MORE TERRITORIES YOU CONQUER, THE MORE YOU WANT TO DO MORE

Obiadi Peter Ekene known with his stage name PeterWalter just recently release his new Singles “You’re Beautiful” was in a one-on-one interview:

WHEN DID YOU START PROFESSIONAL MUSIC? 

In the year 2016

HAVE YOU FACED ANY CHALLENGES WITH MUSIC?

Yeah, Music is a challenging discipline but then the more territories you conquer. The more you want to do more. 

SO WE HEARD YOUR GENRE OF MUSIC IS RNB FUSION OF REGGEA, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO DO THAT GENRE?

Well, I would say it is a choice, I simply just understand what fits me perfectly than anyone else. I feel this is it for me. 

WE HEARD YOUR SINGING STARTED FROM YOUR SECONDARY SCHOOL, TELL US ABOUT IT?

Yeah right, I can remember vividly how much music I had back then at school. It was a Catholic Juniorate Seminary School .I was a member of the choir and was always selected to sing the responsorial psalm, solos, etc.

WHO DO YOU LOOK UP TO IN TERMS OF MUSIC LINE?

(Laughs) I would say in the western music, Artists like John legend, Shawn Mendes and Khalid. From my Nigerian brethren its Bez, Darey, Praiz and Timi Dakolo. 

IS PERFORMING MUSIC THAT EASY?

Well, music is not an easy work whereby you come and do your thing and go, music is about what you create, think and activities around you and as an artist you need to know about the music business.

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE MUSIC?

I really love music, and I can't do without music, even when I’m doing my house chores I still play music, so you see how music works

HOW DOES MUSIC WORK FOR YOU?

(Laughs) If you ask me I will tell you there is a spirit behind music that when you hear a particular beat or sound, you start creating some ryhmes…thats for me though (smiles) 

HOW DID YOU GET THE NAME PETER_WALTER

Actually, Peter is my name, I only combined them together because it sounds rich and nice, and also fits my kind of music

TELL US HOW YOU FELT IN THE JUST CONCLUDED MAKE MUSIC LAGOS 2017?

I felt happy, really cool.

DO YOU HAVE A BAND?

Not yet, but I believe I will when the right time comes

SO MANY ARE CONFUSE, LIKE WHERE YOU COME FROM YOU KNOW,TELL US

Am from Neni, Anambra state, Aniocha Local Governnent

WHEN I FIRST LISTEN TO YOUR RECENT RELEASED SINGLE YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL I THOUGHT IT WAS AN AMERICAN, WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE THE LOVE SONG?

Hahahahaha, my inspiration to write the song is a friend, you all will know later (Laughs) 

ARE YOU STILL IN SCHOOL?

Yes 

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS?

Jesus involve 

HOW DO YOU RELATE WITH YOUR FANS?

Friendly

YOU KNOW YOU DO HAVE A MODEL LOOKS

(Smiles) yeah 

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED MODELING?

Yea but for now I haven’t gotten an agency still focus on music

WE HEARD YOU’RE A DESIGNER TELL US ABOUT IT?

Yea, it’s going on fine. I run a designing wears called Kenii wears… We deal on male wears. 

​

IT WAS NICE HAVING YOU AROUND

Thanks,I appreciate

CAN YOU GIVE US YOUR DETAILS

Ok sure

Instagram ¡­..@obiadi.ekene

Twitter¡­..@obiadiekene10

Facebook­.kenzii peters obiadi

THANKS PETER_WALTER

Thank you.

New Video: Zeal - Blessing and Love

Young zeal hip pop/afro recording artiste 2017 Hit track 'Blessing and love produced by king jayable. 

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Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) reacts to court ruling on the danger of Fanta and Sprite consumption with Vitamin C

Following the recent ruling by the Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), to instruct the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC) to within 90days include in all bottles of Fanta and Sprite that its content cannot be taken with Vitamin C, the NBC has appealed the court order.

The complainant urged the court to declare that the NBC was negligent to its consumers by bottling Fanta and Sprite with excessive levels of benzoic acid and sunset additives. Benzoic acid serves as preservatives but could cause cancer and other health issues, if used excessively.

However, the NBC in its statement noted that the judgment was inaccurate and that its products were safe.

Read below NBC’s response to the ruling;

“Our attention has been drawn to media reports which contain misleading information on the safety of benzoic and ascorbic acids as ingredients in soft drinks, citing a Lagos High Court order.

“In the judgement delivered on February 15, 2017 in a suit involving Fijabi Adebo Holdings Limited & Dr. Emmanuel Fijabi Adebo v. Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) & National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the Lagos High Court dismissed all claims against NBC and held that the company had not breached its duty of care to consumers and that there was no proven case of negligence against it.

“In the same judgement, the court directed NAFDAC to mandate NBC to include a warning on its bottles of Fanta and Sprite that its contents cannot be taken with Vitamin C as same become poisonous if taken with Vitamin C. This order was premised on the fact that the products contain the preservative, benzoic acid. NBC has since appealed this order.

“Whilst we do not wish to delve into the details of the case or the merits of the court order by this medium, we find it imperative in the interest of consumers and members of the public to make the following clarifications:

“In the subject case which dates back to 2007, the UK authorities confiscated a consignment of our products shipped to that country by the plaintiff because their benzoic acid levels were not within the UK national level, although well within the levels approved by both the national regulators for Nigeria and the international levels set by CODEX, the joint intergovernmental body responsible for harmonizing food standards globally.

“The UK standards limit benzoic acid in soft drinks to a maximum of 150 mg/kg. Both Fanta and Sprite have benzoic levels of 200 mg/kg which is lower than the Nigerian regulatory limit of 250 mg/kg when combined with ascorbic acid and 300 mg/kg without ascorbic acid and also lower than the 600 mg/kg international limit set by CODEX.

“Both benzoic acid and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) are ingredients approved by international food safety regulators and used in many food and beverage products around the world.

“These two ingredients are also used in combination in some of these products within levels which may differ from one country to another as approved by the respective national food and drug regulators and in line with the range prescribed by CODEX,”

“The permissible ingredient levels set by countries for their food and beverage products are influenced by a number of factors such as climate, an example being the UK, a temperate region, requiring lower preservative levels unlike tropical countries.

“Given the fact that the benzoic and ascorbic acid levels in Fanta as well as the benzoic acid level in Sprite produced and sold by NBC in Nigeria are in compliance with the levels approved by all relevant national regulators and the international level set by CODEX, there is no truth in the report that these products would become poisonous if consumed alongside Vitamin C.

“The wrong perception emanating from the media reports that our Fanta and Sprite beverages which are fully compliant with all national and international food quality and safety standards are unsafe, simply because their levels of Benzoic acid were not within the UK standards, is not only unfounded but also undermines the entire food and beverage industry in Nigeria which is regulated by the same ingredient levels approved by NAFDAC and other regulatory bodies for the country.

“NBC hereby assures our consumers and members of the public of our unwavering commitment to product quality, safety and customer satisfaction.”

Emma Nyra looking dope In All White Attire For BB Naija Live Eviction Show

Emma Nyra, born Emma Chukwugoziam Obi is an American-born Nigerian singer-songerwriter, actress and model who made her first major debut in the Nigerian music industry after she made a vocal appearance in Iyanya’s “Ur Waist”.

The elegant Songstress opened the show at big brother Nigeria eviction show last night 26th February and she looked absolutely beautiful. 

See photos below:

 

Legendary 2Face donates N3.5million to help refugees displaced by Boko Haram

On Monday, music legend, Innocent Idibia (2Face) gave a cheque of N3.5million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lagos as a way to help alleviate the living conditions of IDPs.

2Face noted that he was touched when he recently visited the Internally Displaced Persons (IPDs) in North-East Nigeria.

“The conditions I met the internally displaced persons, when I visited their various camps were terrible. They were really terrible.

“The 2Face Foundation has, therefore, decided to enter into partnership with the UNHCR to see how we can help put smiles on the faces of these persons. 

“My foundation is today presenting this cheque to the UNHCR to support it in its operations of alleviating the sufferings of these IDPs,” he said.

Adesua Grateful to God as she adds another year

Sensational Actress Adesua Etomi adds a year today and took to her instagram page to thank God for another year.

Happy birthday dearie. May this new age brings more fun, love and success to your life.

Keeping the voice fit and healthy

Your voice is a powerful tool for public speaking and for singing. A strong, beautiful, and clear voice is an irreplaceable feature of impressing everyone literally from the first words. Those who know how to train your voice can admit that it is a long and difficult way of practicing, but the result is worth going this way.

Not only singers should have a strong good voice. There are several professions: 

• Orator, 
• Announcer/broadcaster, 
• Director, 
• Journalist, 
• Teacher, 
• Singer, 
• Dispatcher, 
• Customer service,
• Receptionist 
• Sales representatives 
• Marketers 

For all this specialties, you need to have a strong clear voice supported by different types of training's.

There are 2 types of trainings available for healthy voice: 

1. Vocal training with a professional teacher and 
2. Home voice trainings. 

How to start training

Find below the most common voice training exercises: 

1. While preparing your voice you will make your organism ready and get used to singing. Singing is the best way to train your voice, even if your work does not include singing.

2. Train the connection of voice and hearing. Try to repeat musical notes from different songs without repeating lyrics.

3. If you have musical instrument, such as guitar or piano, use it for training. That is more effective by trying to copy the sounds with your voice. Use all range of notes for wider diapason.

4. Use a microphone to record your trainings and then to listen them. It will help you to hear your mistakes and to develop hearing skill. You do not need to use super powerful or the latest model of microphone, just use the one included to your phone or computer.

5. Try to join in singing any famous or just well known song. You should learn all the lyrics by heart so not to think what you are singing but to concentrate on how you sing. Compare the recorded result with the original version of a song. Do not be very upset if you will not like it – it is training, not a performance. If you can hear your mistakes, it means you can work on your self-perfection.

6. Use different parts of your vocal apparatus and nasopharynx to make different types of sounds. Try to sing not only with your throat, but also using your diaphragm to help making deeper and stronger sounds.

7. Try to crush your limit. Sometimes everyone who is singing feel that there is something like a threshold preventing of taking higher note so you almost have to scream. The thing is to put strengths in this scream, not desperation.

8. Always find some useful information from outer sources. Use internet, books, or friends’ advices to improve your skills.

9. Train your voice and body just like an athlete: Learn proper singing technique, don’t overuse the voice, get plenty of rest, eat a balanced, healthy diet. Singers are like vocal gymnasts who traverse their artistic range with apparent ease and flexibility. Gymnasts are extremely disciplined people who spend hours perfecting their craft and are much more likely than the general public to sustain an injury. Professional singers carry some of these same risks and must maintain a disciplined practice schedule with intervals of rest and recovery to perform at an optimal level, regardless of genre.

10. Let your voice shine. Attempting to imitate someone else’s voice or singing style can require you to sing or do things outside of your comfortable physiologic range or current vocal skill level. This could result in vocal injury. Also remember that if you are imitating someone who is already famous, their millions have been made. You want to be the next star that they hire, not just a copycat.

11. Pace yourself. When you are preparing for a show or audition season, you must pace yourself and your voice. You would not think of trying to get all of your exercise in at the gym by going one day a week for 5 hours. Rather, you should sing (and exercise) in smaller increments of time (30-45 minutes) each day, gradually building muscular skill and stamina. As you improve, you should be able to increase the amount of time as well as the difficulty of vocal skill.

12. Avoid phonotraumatic behaviors such as yelling, screaming, loud talking, singing too loudly. When you increase your vocal loudness, your vocal folds bang together harder (much like clapping your hands really hard, loud, and fast). After a period of doing this, your vocal folds begin to react to the impact by becoming swollen and red. Long term phonotrauma can lead to vocal fold changes such as vocal fold nodules.

13. Adequate hydration. Be sure to drink plenty of non-caffeinated beverages throughout the day. Although nothing you eat or drink gets onto the vocal folds, adequate oral hydration allows the mucus to act like a lubricant instead of glue.

Besides trainings, you also can improve your voice by eating useful products. There is some food, which can be helpful and some food, which can only bring damage. Below are some healthy foods for your voice: 

• warm water, 
• peach, apricot, olive oil (couple of drops), 
• food that contains protein (meat, fish, eggs etc.), 
• buckwheat porridge, 
• fruits and vegetables, 
• honey, 
• anise, 
• chicken. 

Forbidden products 

alcohol (some singers drink coffee with 50g of cognac before performance, but the effect keeps for 30 min and then throat begins to swell), 

hot and spicy food, 

hot tea or coffee, 

greasy snacks like chips, 

nuts, 

milk and milky products, 

cigarettes. 

Professional singers and orators know how difficult it is to keep the voice strong. They eat a lot and often – about 5-6 times a day. Opera singers know that extra weight helps to make the voice deeper and stronger. It is forbidden to eat 2-3 hours before the performance so not to feel tired, sleepy, or heavy. There is a popular recipe about keeping voice strong – to drink raw eggs. It is popular among those people who wonder how to sing better. This recipe does not help to improve your voice for a long time. Raw egg moistures the vocal cords and make the sound juicier. The most useful part of the egg for vocal cords is yolk.

How to get the voice back

If you suddenly have left without any voice because of cold, you can use these recipes. 

• egg cocktail made of raw egg with sugar and any strong alcohol (better to drink before sleeping and to drink with warm water, but not hot), 
• hot cognac (50 g) with lemon juice and honey (drink in small swallows), 
• boiled anise decoction with cognac and honey, 
• rinse your throat with chamomile decoction (add salt for stronger effect, repeat rinsing every hour), 
• tea with lemon and honey. 

As you can see, the most helpful ingredients are strong warm or even hot alcohol, honey, and lemon. All these ingredients make your vocal cords softer and warmer. They work as painkillers and stimulate your organism to get well sooner.

Useful advice about singing 

• Do not compare your voice with other people’s voices. Every voice and its abilities are unique. 
• Even if your voice is far from perfection you should know, that practicing can improve any voice. The only difference is in trainings’ duration. 
• Do trainings concerning not only singing itself but also concerning breathing exercises. It will help to develop your diaphragm. 
• Do not try to imitate someone’s voice in another tonality, especially if the singer is of the opposite sex. 
• Drink water before recording your tapes. It helps to remove crackles from your voice and to raise the level of endurance. 
• Give yourself time. Try not to overwork with your voice. If you feel fatigue then it is better to have some rest and continue training the next day. 
• If you still want to copy any singer then try to find as many his or her songs as possible. Try to understand the voice’s features. 
• Do not sing or even train if you have caught a cold or feel sick. It will only do harm and make the healing process longer. 
• Do not scream any notes because it can damage the vocal cords. 
• If you cannot take any note just sing it quietly for a while and it will come after some time. 
• Use the same amount of breath while singing loudly or quietly. Sing as easy and without any stress as possible.
• The sound has to have volume. That is why mouth should be opened and mimics should be moving.
• Choose songs that you can sing without feeling discomfort.
• Inhale and close the nose with the hand. You should not inhale using nose while singing so get used to this feeling.
• Start from a high note and then sing a random melody to catch the right sound.
• Keep your spine and back straight. Keep your neck straight as well so not to interfere to the sound to go through it.
• Put your hand on your belly and keep it there to feel how your inhales influence on your voice’s power.
• Speak consonants clear and make emphasis on the exact words.
• Sing the exact note and slightly push yourself in a forehead with your finger. This psychological trick will help you to remember the note.
• Sing both high and low notes to realize where the border of your diapasons is. By understanding this border, you can expand your abilities.
• Learn foreign words (especially that ones that came from languages, which have different alphabetic system).
• There is an exercise called “moan”, which was very wide-spread among announcers and broadcasters. To do it correctly you have to sit and relax. Than start to moan quietly as if you had headache. Turn your head and do not stop moaning. You can feel how the sound goes through your throat.
• Speak vowel sounds very clear as if you are pushing them away from your mouth. Speak consonant sounds as if you try to sing them. This exercise helps to strain your stomach and develop diaphragm.
• Whisper all sounds and then pronounce them louder. Try to be as loud as you can but do not scream.

if you do not use teachers’ professional help your learning process can be longer than you expected. This happens because teacher can prompt you better and more useful ways of training. By teaching yourself you can choose a couple of wrong techniques during the learning process, singers, especially young and inexperienced, often cannot practice because of family’s or neighbors’ displeasure. That is why you have to take into account how much time your trainings will take and where can you practice your voice. 

Everyone can have strong beautiful clear voice. The only thing that depends on initial data is the duration of training course, continue practicing until you notice the result, even when the wanted result is reached you can and you should continue exercises so not to lose the achievements. 

Believe in your success even if those who are around you, do not. 

‘How I almost got kidnapped after collecting a flyer in Lagos’

Mrs Ronke Kehinde, a style editor with the defunct Compass newspaper, has recounted her experience on how she was almost kidnapped with a flyer.

In an interview, she recounted how she collected a lethal flyer innocently in broad daylight on the streets of Lagos and she was almost kidnapped after that. All thanks to her faulty car air-conditioner!

Read her experience below:

“I was coming from Computer village, Ikeja last week Wednesday, driving towards Ikeja General Hospital. There was a traffic hold-up due to the traffic light under the bridge that was on red at the time. Then, a lady appeared from the blues with flyers in her hand. She was by the passenger’s window, but her hands were already inside my car, holding the flyer to my face. It was property sales flyer. I wasn’t interested, but I took it, because I wanted her to go so I could drive on. At this time, the traffic light had turned green. I took the flyer from her and dropped it on the seat beside me. As soon as I moved, I noticed something strange. I was feeling some sensation in my eyes.

“They were peppery. I looked at the flyer suspiciously and quickly threw it on the floor of the car, because I wasn’t sure if what I was feeling was as a result of the flyer or where I was at that time. I took the roundabout turning beside LASUTH, then connected the flyover near Awolowo House on Oba Akran Road. As I continued to drive, I was feeling so dizzy and uncomfortable. My eyes were getting unbearably peppery. Curiously, as I was getting close to Guinness, I noticed a light brown car following me. There were three men in the car. Anytime they got to my side, in the traffic, they would all look at me intensely.
“It was at this point I realised something was wrong. It was then I started suspecting a set up. I stuck my head outside the window while driving, so I could get fresh air because I was actually choking.

“I suspected that those guys were expecting to see an unconscious woman. The lady that gave me the flyer must be working with them.When they noticed that I was fully conscious because I was looking at them, they stopped following me.”

On her advice to the public, she said:

“I will say people should not read the flyers given to them on the road immediately. If it is folded flyers, they should not open it. They should wait till they get to a safe place before they open it. Some police officers called to rejoice with us, and they offered some security tips to apply in such dangerous situation.
“One of them said the best thing to do is to drive to the nearest police station when you are being followed. He said when they see you driving towards the station they will know that this is a bad market. They also advised that if you already have a suspected flyer or card in your car, please don’t put on the air conditioner of your car. Put down the windows of your car to give room for cross ventilation. If my A/C had not been faulty, maybe the story would have been different.”