Fashion: Da Viva and Swarovski Crystals Collaborate……

 

"As a leading brand in providing luxurious fabrics, Da Viva has taken another step to provide designers a direct access to loose crystals, mix and match charms and more to create their own unique style and a truly outstanding look. In addition to helping individual customers create unique garments Da Viva invites designers to develop new trends and create new looks with crystals from SWAROVSKI ELE...MENTS.

Crystals are now available to purchase through Da Viva shops and with our skilled designers and technicians, Da Viva now offers customers an application service for hot fix crystals to fabrics, garments and accessories." Da Viva

 

 

“Add a touch of sparkle to your life; Da Viva Life is Beautiful!

As a leading brand in providing luxurious fabrics, Da Viva has taken another step to provide designers a direct access to loose crystals, mix and match charms and more to create their own unique style and a truly outstanding look. In addition to helping individual customers create unique garments Da Viva invites designers to develop new trends and create new looks with crystals from SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS.

Crystals are now available to purchase through Da Viva shops and with our skilled designers and technicians, Da Viva now offers customers an application service for hot fix crystals to fabrics, garments and accessories.” Da Viva

 Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: As you know, Ghana’s remaining textile mills upped their game last year!! We saw Printex leading the way by working with local fashion designers, and Woodin opening a store in Accra’s premier Shopping Mall.. Not to be out done,  Da Viva, probably the youngest and funkiest textile mill in Ghana -has gone way outside the box, –and has being collaborating with uber international fashion player, - Swarovski Crystals since early last year… Allowing Ghana’s style elite to fulfil some of their fashionable fantasise –creating one off garments that can now be embellished with sparkly Swarovski Crystals..

For more info visit Da Viva’s website via: http://da-viva.com/

Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/DaViva.Official

Email: enquiries@da-viva.com
 

 

One to Watch in 2013: Amma Asante for Dutch Parliament…..

Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: Wow, Ghana Rising’s enthralled and inspired by Amma Asante’s political journey –thus far!!! What a beautiful, intelligent, eloquent, motivating and conscious woman –we are now fans..

Ghana Rising Blog truly believes Amma Asante’s the one to watch in 2013, and sees a very bright political future for this incredible woman. Clap for Amma... For more info or to keep up with all of Amma’s political happenings, visit her twitter page at: https://twitter.com/Amma_Asante

 Film Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VwpEV9-yqGA

Credit: Africa Web TV

Amma Asante is a very enterprising African woman living in The Netherlands. She is a consultant, debate moderator, presenter, talk-show hostess, carrier woman, mother, wife and politician. She is aspiring to become a parliamentarian in the upcoming general elections in The Netherlands.

http://www.africatv.nl/

© Africa Web TV 2012

History: The People of Ghana........

"Hairstyles on the Gold Coast."
Published (Bohner 1890: 115). - Signature: "AR."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m36783.html?x=1359069228164




1881/1895
"Hairstyles."






1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37830.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."



1870



1881/1895






1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37815.html?x=1359072565486










"Twin sisters in Aburi Boarding School."
1885




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37827.html?x=1359072565486






1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37797.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37782.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895






1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37812.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37831.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37803.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Hairstyles
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37767.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
Hairstyles
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37776.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
Hairstyles
Source:




1881/1895





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."






Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m49493.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37766.html?x=1359072565486





"Traditional costume of indigenous girls."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55893.html?x=1359072565486




"Traditional costume of indigenous girls."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55898.html?x=1359072565486






Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m49491.html?x=1359072565486




"2 slaves combing hair."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55827.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37814.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37806.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37783.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37770.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37753.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37754.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37756.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37759.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37829.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37824.html?x=1359072565486





1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37817.html?x=1359072565486




1881/1895





Ga Woman
1883/1888



1880/1895
"Mohameddan."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55699.html?x=1359072565486




1880/1895
"Mohameddan Gold Coast."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55706.html?x=1359072565486




1880/1985
Hairstyles
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55737.html?x=1359072565486





"Women dressing their hair."
1885/



1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37798.html?x=1359072565486




Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55845.html?x=1359072565486




"Mohameddan Gold Coast."
1880




"The partially shaved hairstyles of children (Gold Coast)."
"Ghana & Togo. 5 postcards received from Prof. Freyvogel, 1 from the Museum."
1901/1917

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m43130.html?x=1359072565486





"Haussa teacher."





1885
"14 year old African girl with tribal tattooing."




1888/1895




 "Woman with tattoos."
1885




"Seminary house father Evans 1909."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55854.html?x=1359070772741





"African compound with women grinding maize, girls pounding fufu, carriers for the hammock and the loads. The white man sits on a local stool and in front you see his plate and the calebash for his water. On the left big water pots..

Taken between 1860 and, at the latest., the 1870's. (PJ).
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37371.html?x=1359067702057





1881/1895





"Christian children." 1881/1895
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37826.html?x=1359070481607





1881/1895
"Hairstyles."




1881/1895
"Hairstyles."




"Traditional costume of indigenous girls."






"Akropong. The house of Rev. Lang in the background. Rev. Mader's kitchen, Rev. Widmann's house, Rev.Mader's house, Mohrs' house. (Pastors' Seminary)."

The missionaries named were all in Ghana between c. 1850 and c. 1870. (RI).
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m25370.html?x=1359067702057




"Josef Bosompem."
Bosompen was a quarter chief of Kyebi and then became an elder of the Basel Mission Church there when he and the bulk of his people converted in ca. 1880. He was one of the targets of the Kyebi "persecutions" in 1887-8.

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37793.html?x=1359068213660

"Ordination of the first native pastor, Samuel Kwafo, in Kumase 15th August 1909."

"Native pastor Assare, the missionary Groh, S.Kwafo (from Aburi), the missionary Lipps, Gyaména, catechist Opoku, catechist Martinson, catechist Adow, catechist Mâté."

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m38658.html?x=1359070772741









"Abokobi. - The girls' boarding school. Brother Stanger's living quarters."
1864

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37025.html?x=1359072565486




"Tufui preparation - Gold Coast W.A. Natives principal food."
Fufu', not 'Tufui'. (PJ 02.1996).
1901
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m43137.html?x=1359072565486





"No. 67: old woman."
[not after] 1917




"Trading post in Accra."
"Seen from the courtyard of an oil factory." Photographer Fred Grant of Accra, c. 1875-80
***'Oil factory' must be understood here as a trading post specialising in buying palm-oil.

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m24980.html?x=1359068213660





"King Taki II, the king of Accra, with some of his servants 1891."
 Published in John Parker "Making the Town, Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra", 2000, p.54. Caption there: "Ga Mantse Taki Tawia and his household in 1891. Photograph by R.R.C. Lutterodt. Probably Accra's first professional photographer, Lutterodt began business in 1889, later working in Cameroon, Gabon, Fernando Po, and Sao Thome, before returning to Accra in 1900." (PJ 04.2001). - What are the two boys in front wearing on their heads? (PJ 04.2001).

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37938.html?x=1359069879233






"The elephant hunter stands left, his father with a pumpkin bowl filled with palm wine behind him. The teeth are 4000 meters long. Worth 1904:."

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m55863.html?x=1359072144392




"Cattleherd in Addah."
1880





"Street in Saflugu."Most likely a photo by Fisch during his journey to North-Ghana in 1910.
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m38068.html?x=1359072565486





"Indigenous pastors."
1885/1911
http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m52183.html?x=1359072565486





"Pastor Opoku."
1909/1914




"First car used in Ghana by the British governor Maxwell."
[not after] 1917
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m26010.html?x=1359072565486




1861/1880







"View of Tamale (Togo) 1928."
**"Tamale in the Gold Coast" (i.e. Ghana) must be what was originally intended, s. D-30.70.047

Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m27687.html?x=1359072565486




"Weaver, Tamale. 1936."
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m50930.html?x=1359072565486









1925-12-27/1935
Source: http://bmpix.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/view/impa-m37194.html?x=1359072565486





1911
"L to r. Djoleto, Wertz, Dodu, the older Richter, the younger Richter, Clerk, Macmillans." [Caption on the old envelope]




"Sikasoko stool."
1925-12-27




1925-12-27/1935





"Brides."