Experimenting for Spring!

Spring can by no means be considered to have Sprung here. My cold bones are longing for the Moroccan sun or even just the pushing through of spring flowers here to give us some hope! I should know better than to expect Spring before the end of February but whatever happened to global warming? Ok, I shouldn't joke about that! Anyway, we may not be able to indulge the fabrics, but at least the colours of Spring in the hope that it might hurry it along...

And with an extra scarf for extra WARMTH!! And added height of course. If I'd had more embelishments I could have gone wild, but that is something I intend to do - make corsages for looks like this.

Eid outfit 2009

This is the outfit I wore for Eid last year, the scarf was from River Island, while the outfit was bought on http://www.desertstore.com/ a year or more previously. I love the one where the painting of the moon is behind my head! And in the other one I look like a genie....

I am an AfriCAN!

I wore this to a Gambian christening I attended with my friend Aisha. The more exposed look is more acceptable in their culture, especially on special occasions. Aisha loaned me the outfit and I experimented with the head tie myself!

Fish vs Flapper

A look for the day! I have to say I appreciate the ease of this look, two small scarves, the stripey one from Egypt (one of my staples) and the sequined gold one from H&M.

To Cover or Not to Cover - This is the question?

"Take it slow."

This is the advice I have received from my most beloved friends. And this whole question of modesty is one that is close to my heart. I mean look at me, you can see from my other blogs that I have not been one to be ashamed of my own appearance or embarassed about people seeing me in a pop culture state of dress/undress. As a singer/songwriter I have gone through many transitions artistically that have been coloured by my life experience. My most recent EP 'Once Bitten...[Twice Sha]' has been the most documented of these phases, and one in which I have been blessed to have been given a real purity of expression by those I have worked with, Andy Touch my producer, Donato Cinicolo and Momoko Abe with the video (extra photography by Antonio Casiero), and Pete at Circadisc. My heart is full of gratitude even as I type those names. But with the arrival of 2010 I enter yet another phase which remains as yet undefined. In 2007 I 'covered' for a period before it began to feel like a sentence and I felt my sincerity was compromised. However, this year, unexpectedly I find myself drawn again to that meditative form of dress. My love of styling is well reported but I have never had a photographic record of my foray into the world of headcovering. I recorded in my blog 'My Inner Human Life' that I had not long ago the urge to shave off my hair as a kind of spiritual surrender and cleansing. However, my instinct told me to apply the spiritual concept without approaching asceticim. So, prompted by my friend Ali Alimashoor I have again began to experiment. Herein are the results of that. There feels to be a certain conflict in my creativity in terms of music and my tentative approach to modesty, but where will I settle?

Stay tuned...