rebloggin for a snoggin
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A few of my favourite images from Congolese photographer Baudouin Mouanda series on the immaculately dressed members of Sape (Société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes) in Congo.
“Elegance Road” is a photo series by Belgian photographer Alexandre Van Enst that captures the non-conformist style and dandy attitudes of a Kinshasa-based fashion and lifestyle SAPE collective.
The African Society of Elegant People, the “SAPE” was born in the years after the independences of Congo-Brazzaville and Zaire.
Today there are two major schools of “SAPE”, respectively inspired by the French and Japanese aristocracy. They clash with high fashion brands, millimetered steps and gestures, from Paris to Kinshasa, during parades in honor of their founding masters, or simply at the Mass of Sunday.
Codified art of sham, glamor and “hast thou seen” for some, for others the SAPE is a metaphysic, a special relation with the question of being and appearance. Sassy, narcissistic and rebellious, the “sapeur” is a romantic.
“Elegance Road” showcases these heroes of modern times. In the decadent sceneries of the city of Kinshasa, from Lemba to Bandal through Ndjili, Matete and Limete, the “sapeurs” of the “War of hundred years” defy the power in place: the Leopards.
Led by the great masters such as Tshikose, Sesele and Kadhitoza, the Congolese dandies constantly reinvent themselves to shine.
my dumb graduation cap made it on a local newspaper’s website god
for the first time in a good twenty years I will be home alone and I know I should be making a last-ditch attempt at throwing a rebellious house party before it’s too late but I will most likely spend the limited time sleeping
can anyone less boring than me help me maximise my waning adolescence
[cries noisily]
#shoutout to everyone I harassed last night. I was wearing novelty tights, and although that doesn’t change anything I feel that was at least a mitigating factor
Anonymous asked: You should really consider releasing a memoir about your time as a suffragette leader in southern Argentina. I'd buy it.
Anonymous asked: Would you ever date a known fan of Fleetwood Mac?
richard. if u want to go out all u have to do is ask
Members of The Billy Eckstine Orchestra getting some air at Bop City
(Martha Holmes. 1950)
(via jazzrelatedstuff)
“In a Station of the Metro,” first published today in 1913.
YOU WANTED ME TO SAY “IN THE TRAP”
[current interests limited to: reich’s six pianos, pokka iced tea]
