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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 7 May 2019
Savile Row's Ozwald Boateng debuts womenswear in Harlem

By LEANNE ITALIE traditional Savile Row style.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ozwald He's also a former creative
Boateng, the one-time director of menswear for
wunderkind of London's Sa- Givenchy and was the first
vile Row and the bespoke black designer on London's
tailor to the stars, filled the famous tailoring street, in
historic Apollo Theater to 1995.
its rafters in celebration of He also popped up in
the 100th anniversary of Wakanda. Boateng's cus-
the Harlem Renaissance as tom single-button Mohair
he launched his first wom- suit in teal was featured
enswear collection after in a scene on a man with
30-plus years in the men's a large ornate lip plate
suiting game. in "Black Panther." He has
Fresh off dressing Idris Elba produced costumes for a
for his Marrakesh wedding, range of other film and TV
with Elba and wife, Sabrina fare as well and was hired
Dhowre, in the front row, by British Airways to design
Boateng treated his guests new uniforms.
Sunday night to an explo- Boateng took Hollywood
sion of color and African- years ago, with help from
inspired prints and textures, some of his famous cli-
some done in modern ents: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx,
twists on traditional British Models wear a creation for The Ozwald Boateng collection during a fashion show at Apollo The- Laurence Fishburne and
tailoring. ater in New York, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Daniel-Day Lewis to name
Boateng has shown ready Associated Press a few. Foxx was among
to wear in New York before, celebs on hand for Sun-
during fashion week, along community members and phrases that flashed on his beginning of the Harlem day night's show with Elba
with all over the world, but fashion students. big screen. Renaissance spanning the — People's Sexiest Man
this was an Afrocentric cel- "I just want to be really in- Boateng's stage lit up after 1920s, dresses were tailored Alive — along with Harlem's
ebration in song, music and clusive when I create," said a short film in looks for men to allow maximum move- own designer Daniel Day,
film as his walkers shared Boateng, a Londoner of and women in orange, red, ment when dancing. known as Dapper Dan, and
the stage with their own im- Ghanaian descent. "We're teal and a gorgeous light Some of his looks for women Marco Bizzarri, president
ages on screen. in an interesting place now hue of purply blue, done in included belted suit jack- and CEO of Gucci.
He told The Associated in the world and I feel that I one standout women's suit ets. Others had wider belts. "Ozwald is the one respon-
Press he picked the "epi- want to express more of my with wide-pleated trousers And he proved he can sex sible for bill boarding our
center for African Ameri- African roots in my work. It's in a delicate pin stripe de- up a backless dress for the mission," Day said.
can culture" because he's important to be true to who sign, paired with a men's- ladies as he cuts suits to Boateng and Elba have
committed to building a you are, to be authentic." style jacket that had the narrow the waist of wearers been friends for a decade.
bridge between Africa and The show, dubbed "AI," narrowest of lapels. who need that and bring He considered it an honor
the African diaspora. He is not what you think. He He let some vibrant skirts out the greatest assets for to make Elba's black wed-
not only hosted the usual meant "authentic iden- and dresses for women the men. ding suit for the star's April
fashion media crowd but tity," ''artistic intelligence" flow freely, noting in his pro- Boateng, 52, is known for 26 walk down the aisle in
opened his doors to Harlem and "ancestral identity," all gram for guests that at the contemporary takes on Morocco.q

Anna Quindlen tours the wild world of grandparenting

By ROB MERRILL Quin, and his wife, Lynn. New York Times and News- just a proud nana sharing
Associated Press "A bundle in a blanket with week columns over the family stories. Did you know
"Nanaville: Adventures in a full head of glossy black years, Quindlen mixes wit grandparents are more
Grandparenting," by Anna hair," is Quindlen's first de- and wisdom as she shares likely to see the children of
Quindlen (Random House) scription of him. She quickly her thoughts on this new their daughters than their
"Write what you know." Few hits on the book's central stage in life. sons? Or that when Arthur
follow that advice better theme — grandparent- "A big part of our grand- was born, one in seven
than Pulitzer Prize-winning ing as an "avocation," not parent job is expressing newborns in America were
columnist Anna Quindlen, something to which she ecstatic appreciation for multiracial or multiethnic?
who recently discovered is entitled simply as the everything from urination Neither did Quindlen, until
the joys, and challenges, of mother of the new father: to reflexes. We must always she took up residence in
grandparenthood. "The thing is, from the mo- silence the irritated voice Nanaville. Waiting in line
There are two tenets of ment it begins you want to of adult complacency: OK, at a Baby Gap with Arthur
"Nanaville," writes Quindlen, do something. . And some- I get it, I get it, you drew a in a sling, she's asked for
which she characterizes as times if you're lucky, the 3. But honestly, a 3 isn't that a second time where the
"a state of mind, a place I people who really get to hard. A 5, now, there's a Chinese-American child on
wound up inhabiting with- make all the decisions will number. No. It is the great- her chest is from. "Whole
out ever knowing it was let you do so. It's their call. est 3 that anyone has ever Foods," she tells the strang- This image released by Ran-
dom House shows "Nanaville:
what I wanted": "Love the . The torch is passed to a drawn." er. Adventures in Grandparent-
grandchildren, and hold new generation, as well In addition to those laugh- Out well before National ing" by Anna Quindlen.
your tongue." as the bouncy seat, and out-loud moments, the Grandparents Day on Sept. Associated Press
The jumping off point is the the breast pump, and the book contains enough 8, "Nanaville" is worth a visit
birth of her first grandchild, baby wipes." facts and historical insights for anyone whose baby ei- getting ready to welcome
Arthur, to her oldest son, In the tradition of her best to ground it as more than ther now has a baby or is one.q