From backstage to front of house, feature contributor Jesse Newman, and photographer Daniel Kukla cover the S/S 2011 collection of Malaysian-born, New York based fashion veteran Zang Toi, during September’s New York Fashion Week.

Aakanksha Kapoor gives us a peek in to the Argentina Group Showcase on the last day of New York Fashion Week, September 16th 2010, at the Lincoln Center.
Inspiration from modern literature and polo, to nuns and deserts– this six designer showcase had it all.

This is… Inua Ellams. You should get to know.

Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and graphic designer. Or rather, a wordsworth, peruser and interloper traversing different worlds with rhythm and slice. His writing and performance comes with ornate detail and structure that straddles his Nigerian roots and British upbringing. Layered in richness and full of iconographic imagery – he presents British audiences with a hologram of an immigrant’s creative coming of age.

As it happens, This Is Worldtown dropped by New York Fashion Week (NYFW) this month.
In the first of our coverage, feature contributor Shida Salehi of The Perfect Pairing, shares insights and images from the front row, at the NYFW debut show of Farai Simoyi, of Zimbabwean heritage, now making her dream come true in NYC.
The show took place at the Skylight West venue, Sept 13th 2010.

What could be more American than football? I’m sure there are plenty of things, but no sport offers a more iconic symbol for American identity. So it’s timely that a documentary tracing a High School …

Photographer Caroline Irby spent one year tracking down a child born in every country in the world (now living in the UK), then photographed and interviewed each one.
Exhibit on at the V&A Museum of Childhood until August 30th 2010

‘Homegrown’ is easily the production that stirred up the most controversy– and national attention– at this year’s Toronto indie theatre and arts festival, Summerworks.
Based on real events and experiences of the playwright Catherine Frid, ‘Homegrown’ centres around a seemingly unlikely friendship between the young man, Shareef Abdelhaleem, arrested and accused of terrorism in 2006 as part of the so-called ‘Toronto 18′, and, the lawyer/playwright, who is determined to separate the facts of the case from the secrecy, delays and media spin (easier said than done).

For anyone who likes to think identity politics is dead, irrelevent or both - Gary Younge, the prolific writer/commentator for the Guardian has published a new book on 21st identity politics: Who are We-And Should …

We received this callout for an incredibly relevant project, which especially stands out in light of growing Muslim defamation and anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States. The Ground-Zero Islamic Centre debacle has stirred a few …

Behavioural change through media and social networks, it’s the buzz phrase of NGO’s and larger organizations alike. Commercial outlets have caught in the last few years, capitalizing through a social marketing framework - playing on …