Pop Tarts: Kanye West Told to Leave VMAs Sep 15, 2009
Sienna Miller, Hugh Grant, Helena Christensen, Nicky Hilton, Alek Wek, Carlos Leon, Monet Mazur, Bar Rafaeli, Devon Aoki and Josh Hartnett getting their groove on to The Cult DeLe. n Tequila party at the Rose Bar at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel on Thursday night. (Fox News)
Arise Africa Fashion Week ? A New Day Dawns in African Fashion May 23, 2009
Some of the biggest names in music and fashion have participated, many for the first time in Africa, including Jay-Z, Beyonc;, John Legend, Rihanna, Usher, Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Seal, P. Diddy, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Tyson Beckford, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Alek Wek, Liya Kebede and many more. For the past 14 years, THISDAY LIVE has produced the THISDAY Awards, which celebrates good governance in Nigerian business and politics, recognizing outstanding leadership in banking, oil,... (allAfrica.com)
Out of Africa, fashion's new black Mar 22, 2009
"As a teenager I always wanted to be a model. I loved (Sudanese supermodel) Alek Wek and I asked my dad. And he was like, 'Honey we can't do it here. It will cost us money and we need that money to raise the kids.' And if I stayed in Sudan I would have been married at 14. But now, my dad's like, 'You can do whatever you want.' ". Right now, she has her sights set on the international catwalks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Truffle Linkage Mar 4, 2009
Also on hand: model Alek Wek and Liev Schreiber (without Naomi Watts) on the stoop in the freezing cold to smoke a cigarette. 00004000. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Skin Deep: Sculpturing strands Feb 20, 2009
Around the same time, she expressed her fantastical vision in the elaborately plaited "horns" she sculptured for the model Alek Wek, giving her the fierceness of a bull about to charge. For John Galliano, she created the aqua-tinted corkscrew curls that turned his models into 18th-century cocottes, and for Jean Paul Gaultier she once topped a cluster of unruly curls with a miniature galleon. (International Herald Tribune)
