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Carnival Queen

Carnival Queen

August 28, 2011 by Zarina Holmes

Each year at the Carnival, I will be looking out for the Carnival Queens. I have always been fascinated with their confidence and beauty. And the fact that their beauty is natural and (seems to me) not surgically enhanced. These women are proud of their silhouettes, be it slim or curvy. It is an antidote to what we are accustomed to in the mainstream fashion magazines. This young lady in gold deliberately slowed down as she saw me lifting my […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: carnival queen, Notting Hill Carnival

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Nissan’s East Meets West commission

May 1, 2011 by Zarina Holmes

“We are not ourselves. Why? Because we cannot learn all we know alone, just by ourselves. We are a cocktail of everything we see, hear and touch. So by the time we talk to someone, we become a little bit of the other person. As we move, travel, talk, love and share we automatically influence others. Even if we are born somewhere remote without human beings around, we will absorb from nature, animals, plants and the elements. We are the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: British identity, London, London Design Festival, multiculturalism, Nissan Design Europe, Notting Hill Carnival

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