Over the last two weeks, the style team behind M-Net Face of Africa have shared their star style tips with viewers as the Top 12 Face of Africa
finalists gear up to appear at Swahili Fashion Week. This week (Saturday January 2 at 19:00 CAT on M-Net), former model and Face of Africa
Fashion Director Juanita Daniel, multiple award-winning celebrity makeup artist and Iman Cosmetics ambassador Nthato Mashinini, Face of Africa stylist and fashion expert Oratile Seabela and the team from Dark & Lovely show viewers how
to recreate iconic looks made famous by some of the world's most beautiful women.
This week, the Face of Africa style team show viewers how to style themselves just like inaugural Face of Africa winner Oluchi, Iman,
Alicia Keys, Kimora Lee Simmons, Rihanna and Grace Jones - as they have appeared in iconic magazine shoots.
Inaugural Face Of Africa winner Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi's career has gone from strength to strength over the last 11 years. With Vogue
covers and campaigns for GAP and Victoria's Secret behind her, Oluchi has an iconic look and style.
Soul star Alicia Keys is almost as well-known for her quintessential New York Girl look as for her long list of musical achievements. Since her
debut in 2001 she has become a fixture on both the music and fashion charts. Kimora Lee Simmons started her career in fashion as a model, but
is undoubtedly now far better-known as an ambitious and successful entrepreneur in the fashion world with her Phat Farm brand and popular
reality television show.
Songstress Rihanna must be one of the most recognisable personalities in the world of pop, thanks in no small part to her immaculate style and fashion sense. Hugely successful with her music, she is smart, sassy and stylish. Grace Jones basically invented the template for models to cross over into other careers: Model and actress, Grace Jones has always been distinctive and memorable. Iman is fashion royalty - with a list of accomplishments and achievements that still appears to be growing after
decades in the industry. Her personal style, business moves and longevity all combine to deliver a truly iconic, memorable look.
Our Face of Africa presenter - and 2005 model search winner - Kaone Kario has her own unique style and has grown her fashion vocabulary at
photo shoots around the world. She rates her mother, some of her fellow models and some of her closest friends as her own personal fashion
icons. "Show your personality and the rest will follow" is the rule she would tell anyone to stick to when choosing their own personal style.
Kaone says she has been blessed so far in her career to have met the right people who have advised her, at the right time. One of the most
important things she has learnt over the last 4 years as a professional model is "knowing when to share your opinion and how".
Not bad for a young girl who auditioned for Face of Africa in Botswana because she thought it may lead to a chance to become a kids TV presenter...
While viewers are having their style tweaked and learning supermodel secrets, the Top 12 Face of Africa Finalists are preparing for Swahili
Fashion Week after which the TOP 10 will take to the catwalk at the series finale in Lagos in February 2010! The M-Net Face of Africa 2009 will walk away with a modeling contract from O Model Africa, USD 50 000 in cash from M-Net, skincare products for 12 months from Iman Cosmetics
and a trip to New York, courtesy of Arise Magazine, to participate in New York Fashion Week.
For more information and exclusive video from M-Net's Face of Africa model search, simply log on to www.mnetafrica.com to find out more!