-Shallot Mohutege
Blogging as a career
A decade ago, blogging was considered just a hobby, but we have since realized it’s growth in terms of bloggers and people who start taking blogging as a career option.
Holding on to sanity
What do you do when you had a busy week, filled with deadlines and early mornings, constant ups and downs, barely enough time to catch your breath or soak in the silence around you? Most of us term this scenario as “going through life” or simply “having a hectic week”, but how often do we consider the effect this has on our sanity.
-Rena Stephanus
The 8-5 Creative
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand” – Albert Einstein
Fitness amidst your busy schedule
Are you a busy career woman or man, who finds it hard to balance your busy schedule with your fitness life? In this edition we go extra in finding out ways on how to stay fit whilst having a busy schedule.
-Iyaloo Magongo
What can’t Paul Da Prince do?
Zambian born musician, Paul Munanjala, also known as Paul Da Prince has, what we can confidently say, stolen many hearts in Southern Africa, especially in Namibia.
Reggie Films is not planning on stopping anytime soon!
Undjee Reggie Zaire better known as Reggie Films is here to stay.
Inner beauty: The Power of Common Courtesies
Beauty! What a misnomer. The word has managed to build a multi-billion industry with a particular focus on the beauty that any naked eye can see i.e. external beauty. The industry has everything and anything your money can buy to fit your description of beauty. In the era of the Kardashians, fuller lips, bigger butts, smaller waists and bleached straight hair seem to be the trend. We go out of the way to try and paint the picture that we have beauty through makeup, fancy and/or trendy clothes and for some even through plastic surgery. In essence, directly or indirectly, we are made to believe that our identity is centred on our physical appearance.
MONOCHROME JUNE 2018: CONTENT
In this edition we speak fashion, fashion and more fashion. We explore the difference between style and fashion, the body standards in fashion and we catch up with a few industry players.
Gracing our cover this month is the talented fashion designer who has showcased internationally, representing our culture in his execution. Deon Mathias aka Deon Angelo is shot by Tuva Wolf Studios for our June cover.
Editor’s Note: How fashionable am I?
Every time someone meets me for the first time (without having known me off social media already), they are always almost shocked that I am not as fashionable as they imagined the “editor” of Monochrome Magazine would be. Someone once actually said “I thought you’d be like a Leah Misika.”