Long driveway
give all your cares away
look at the skies above
look at the morning dove
Look at another day
sweet little runaway
running through the high cornways
scratches that do feel real
❤️
Ralph Lauren wins Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2026 #CFDAAwards for the third time.
Ralph Lauren is the only designer to receive all of the CFDA’s top honors: Lifetime Achievement, Menswear Designer of the Year, Womenswear Designer of the Year, and Retailer of the Year, alongside the awards for Humanitarian Leadership, American Fashion Legend, and the inaugural Popular Vote.
@kevwe_od Big fan of the post-Nigerian Civil War psychedelic funk/rock movement here.
Eastern Nigeria had some of the best bands that indeed need to be understudied today:
The Wings
The Hykkers
War-Head Constriction
Semi-Colon
Foundars 15
Seen Train Dreams an unhealthy number of times for a movie so brilliantly piteous.
While I’m inadvertently haunted by Will Patton’s narratorial style, I’m more intrigued by how Nick Cave felt writing the OST knowing he’s sadly, lost 2 sons.
Grief heals what it doesn’t kill.
Interestingly, Oriental Brothers International Band that popularized the funky rock and post-civil war Igbo highlife genre at the time, essentially did so as a coping mechanism to heal their listeners from the trauma of the war.
The Biafran War alongside the Vietnam War were amongst the first major conflicts televised to a global audience.
In response to images of malnourished children that were globally publicised, Norway and other international agencies sent stockfish as aid to combat malnourishment.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was also established as a result of the famine in then Biafra.
Students of History of Humanitarian Aid know that same war birthed what is now known as neo-humanitarianism; a shift from charity to rights based interventions.
Whoever curated the nexus of Polo Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren Purple Label, debuting on a Milan runway, is totally brilliant.
Even more brilliant, is playing Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” as the models did their Preppy and New Yorker walks.
A Thief Called Grief
Grief isn’t brief
Life isn’t either
Life is a fief
Get a breather
Grief isn’t lief
Life maybe
Grief is reif
robs daily
Time is a soother
Or not
Grief is a bother
time is nought
So what’s life without grief
A property for the thief