Bakare Spring/Summer 2012

Duchess Tee c/o Bakare, Commando Cotton Boy Shot c/o Her Look/Commando

Photography by Mary Wayman

 Barkare just dropped another cool, urban collection for Spring/Summer 2012.

To learn more, see more, and to shop for Bakare Clothing, click here.

To see more coverage of Bakare on Belles&Rebelles, click here.

Big Thanks to Tito Jose of Bakare for making this feature possible and for always keeping us in the loop!

Big Thanks to Kellie Parks of Her Look for the Commando underwear!

Big Thanks to Photographer Mary Wayman for her photography!

xx.

M

BAKARE & Holiday Weekend Giveaway

What I wore: Shots 1 & 2: Boyfriend Tee c/o BAKARE, Tribal Mini Skirt c/o BAKARE, Dinosaur Headband by Jennifer Behr, Sunglasses by DSquared2

Shots 3 & 4: Black and Grey Striped Racer Back Tank c/o BAKARE, White Mini Skirt c/o BAKARE

Shots 5 & 6: White Burn Out Tee c/o BAKARE, Black and Grey Striped Mini Skirt c/o BAKARE

Shots 7 & 8: Off-Should Tee c/o BAKARE, Headband by France Luxe c/o JVP Media

San Diego based brand, BAKARE, whose name comes from a Nigerian word meaning "style in its own," is dedicated to creating a style movement. Urban designs reflect of an essence of individualism, as well as the designers's heritage and roots in Nigeria. Still, this brand stays completely relevant to the current trends across the globe and is just cool.

Want to join the style movement and get your hands on some of BAKARE's trendy, comfortable clothes? In celebration of the long Labor Day Holiday Weekend, we've teamed up with BAKARE head designer, Abimbola "Tito" Jose to offer you a way to to end your summer the right way...and start your fall with a bang. Enter for a chance to win a $100 Gift Certificate towards any BAKARE pieces of your choice. See the giveaway rules and regulations below.

To Enter the BAKARE $100 Gift Certificate Giveaway:

1. Follow us and leave a comment here on Blogger explaining how much you need a gift certificate for BAKARE Clothing and what you might purchase with it.

2. Add Belles&Rebelles (here) and BAKARE (here) on Twitter and tweet at us saying "@BELLESnREBELLES I want to join the @BAKARECLOTHING Style Movement!

3. "

Like" Belles&Rebelles (here) and BAKARE Clothing (here) on Facebook and leave a comment under this post about how much you'd love to get your hands on some cool BAKARE Clothes!

4. Or, lastly, j

ust click the "like" button for this post once you've joined us at our Facebook Fan Page

(here).

If you choose to do all of the above, you will be entered in the raffle four times (each action will guarantee you one raffle entry). The contest will run through the holiday weekend, ending at midnight on Labor Day, Monday, September 5, 2011.

(Contest deadline is midnight USA EST Time on Monday, September 5, 2011. The winner will be announced and notified on Tuesday, September 6, 2011.)

This contest is open to all national and international followers.

Get your comments, tweets, and Facebook "thumb-ups" in ASAP for the chance to win some money to spend on clothing of your choice from this up-and-coming stylish brand!

To learn more, see more, and to shop for Bakare Clothing, click here.

Big Thanks to Tito over at Bakare for making this Giveaway possible!

xx.

M

Ken+Dana Design & Launch Party

Everything that is of the ken+dana design brand is crazzzzy creative and can be described as the "jewelry that takes chances, has a voice and looks fly." With an urban feel, and an extremely diverse design team that heirs from Hong Kong, Maine, and Brooklyn, k+d designs are non-traditional and unlike any accessories you have ever seen before. By focusing on exploring art and its relationship with body decoration, the designers experiment with materials and techniques that are way, way, wayyyy outside the normal "box" of jewelry making. With two labels, a beautiful, elegant fine jewelry line and it's opposite, yet complimentary, "b-side label," which references the "b-side" of a cassette tape -the place where artists are known to execute experiments- ken+dana aims to create a wide variety of pieces that are as diverse as their team is. For their newest collection under the "b-side label," entitled "Graffiti 2.0," the designers channel their urge to "paint on stuff." As an encore and follow-up to their extremely popular "Graffiti" collection, their ideas stem from their artistic backgrounds in painting what can be ever-so-time-consuming, street murals. Now, with the use of stencil techniques their graffiti art comes straight off of the walls and right onto the jewelry. This immediately helps to achieve both multiplicity and accessibility, and certainly gives them the ability to reach the masses in a much, much, much more timely fashion. The end product? An inssssssanely SICK collection of statement pieces that are all at once an exuberant mix of funky, bold, edgy and sexy with a straight-up city-street vibe. Dig it ALL.

Check out some pages from their dope look book below, and scroll down for an EVENT that you will NOT want to miss.

NEED to get my hands on these pieces in particular:

EVENT.

Itching to be the first get your paws on a piece of the NYC streets and anything and everything from ken+dana's awesome urban-chic "Graffiti 2.0" collection? Come out to the Launch Party this coming Wednesday, September 1.

All jewelry by ken+dana designs are handmade in NYC.

Custom made pieces can be made upon request.

To learn more, see more, and to shop for ken+dana design, click here.

xx.

M