Under the theme Africa goes West, fashion designer Betty Kabubi showcased her latest designs at Club Silk’s Lounge in front of a packed crowd. Kabubi’s couture display on Thursday night was part of the Lounge’s first anniversary two-day celebrations.

Celebrations began on Wednesday with performances from Bebe Cool and members of the Jungle Beat Crew. In between intervals of the Little Red Boutique proprietor’s models on the catwalk, Mesach Semakula and Angella Katatumba entertained the crowd.

Five models from Nash Productions and five from Kampala International University showed the crowd how elegant one could look in African wear, casual and office wear.

Kabubi said African material with a western touch was simply fabulous.

The designs pulled crowds that had for sometime underestimated African designs. “There are Europeans who would like the African material, but in their own designs, so I gave it to them,” she said.

The effect of using five black girls and the other five being Oriental and Asians worked well, for one could see how the ‘western’ people would look in African attire and the other way round.

Affordable is the right word for those with some dress sense. From sh60,000-sh100,000 (while stock lasts), ladies into classy stuff are surely in for a kill. Decorated in red and white with a plastic Christmas Tree stashed in one corner and balloons everywhere, the Lounge was in a festive mood.

Elly Karuhanga, Sanyu Radio’s Crystal Newman, Bell Lager’s Marion Muyobo, Nile Breweries’ Shem Semambo and Robert Kigula, Lavie boutique’s Jalal and Brenda Nanyonjo were part of the crowd that danced the night away.
 
However, it was Newman and her group that really shook the dance floor.
Source: New Vision