Word: zambesi
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...looking for different lines." If the recent Fashion Week in Sydney is any guide, they are increasingly looking to menswear. New labels popped up as frequently as gelled '80s hairdos while, taking a cue from international crossover stars like Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and Karen Walker, New Zealand's Zambesi joined Akira in showing its first men's line. Where once "over in the corner was a lonely little rack called menswear," notes Sydney style maven Belinda Seper, these days "it's part of the same market. The lines are blurring...
...blurred. Last year, the British designer sent male models down the runway with prosthetic breasts under their cashmere sweaters. In Sydney, there was a more subtle shift. "So many of those traditional stereotypes have been broken down now, and men can dress with a lot more freedom," says Zambesi's Tulia Wilson. Known for strongly individual, layered looks for women, the label has cleverly adapted that staunchness for men, whether masculinizing a dark hummingbird print into a tailored French-cuffed shirt, or adding a pink collar to a vintage rugby jersey. "It's that traditional gentleman's aesthetic," says designer...
Another group of Rhodesian commandos dressed as local soldiers destroyed a ferry in Botswana. The ferry crossed the Zambesi river where Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia meet...
...that the region's unusually harsh landscape was one more puzzle connected with the peculiar geological formations of East Africa's Great Rift Valley, a 3,000-mile series of breaks in the earth's surface, which stretches as far south as the mouth of the Zambesi River. To Tazieff, however, it is an illustration of a more intriguing phenomenon: continental drift. After years of debate, scientists have finally become convinced that the earth's huge land masses are really moving. As they see it, lava is pouring out of a 47,000-mile-long chain...
Kaffir-a-Day. Zambesi Club "meres" are white Rhodesians and South Africans from Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare's Fifth Commando-a unit that left the Congo last April after stamping out a Communist-instigated rebellion of Simba warriors. Other mercenaries include Sahara-scorched French veterans of the O.A.S. uprising in Algeria, tough British colonial troops from the old Indian army, and unashamedly racist Rhodesians who joke about "sending a Kaffir a day to heaven." In the Congo, they earned the nickname Les Affreux (the Terrible Ones). Scores of them can be found in the bars of Johannesburg and Salisbury...