REAL GIRL TALK
Asanda Mali founder of Mal'stone a successful fashion designer in Port Elizabeth who makes cloths for ‘real women and all women’. Her Facebook timeline page is coloured with controversial video I’d like to call ‘’real girl talk’’ raw uncut conversations specifically related to black women issues, she proclaims to be all about women and aims to bridge the evident imbalances societies creates towards women. She believes that women are not as favoured as men are because of women’s differences but it is those differences that makes women powerful contributors of today’s communities. She expresses her frustrations while finding resolutions to women issues through her ability to make cloths that are relevant to the current African style, she proclaims that with fashion she can do anything.
Inclusivity is her fashion line’s mission a word that the fashion industry has avoided. She believes that every women deserves to be beautiful when she thinks about black beauty in a deeper context black African women is what comes to mind she believes black women are the colour of the world. But this notion is threatened by the west she believes the west to be problematic whatever the west decides to be good is what the world follows excluding ethnic identity of African people because not everyone is from the west and not everyone can relate to the west. The fashion industry needs to cater for everyone and make black African beauty matter.