Bone-chilling Style

By now you must have figured out that The Ordinary Girl likes googling shoes when she's meant to be 9to5ing. So I came across these gaw-jus DSquared2 heels. According to Sicka Than Average (which is where I jacked these babies from), the DSquared2 designers, Dean and Dan Caten's "Fall 2010 footwear offerings boast an anthropological bent, with curved heels that mimic the stacked vertebrae along a spinal column."



Tweets have also gone bananas over these shoes because apparantly AKeys wore them when she performed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony. We love Alicia and are glad we can agree on something seeing that her hair game has been sloppy lately. Blame it on the pregnancy, right?



These shoes retail for $1275 - $1650 so go online if you're not faint-hearted and if you have good credit.



In other Mrs Beats news (see how we do that? Give you two posts in one? Where they do that at?), have you guys seen this? What do you make of this "virtual instrument"?

STOP THE PARTY!

We didn't wanna rain on their parade but...
Apparently, Mashonda's ex and AKeys got their tribal dancing on in Durban when they were here for the World Cup. And, get this, Ms Cook (she's not married yet!) and their unborn child were given Zulu names too. Why?



According to the Bitchie:

Wearing tribal beads, Alicia and her baby were given Zulu names while standing under a fig tree known as the ‘healing tree’ by locals who believe it brings good fortune and health. ‘Two female priests who practice a mix of Christianity and tribal custom chose new names for her and the unborn child, as a mark of respect. The names were kept between them, but were chosen to reflect Alicia’s character.

‘Alicia had to do a special dance with drums banging in the background, and was embraced by abused children who she has helped. She was chosen for the ceremony as a thank-you, because she has done a lot to keep children’s lives afloat and for us to afford our support staff.

‘Her partner came too – he held her hand and helped her sit down when she needed rest.’

Abused children? Really? That's a novelty? Come on Keys! Only good thing about this? At least the very-uncomfortable-looking Swizz Beats was rocking some phly classic adidas.

Showtime indeed.

Not Another Bafana Post

It's no Write The Future but it's cool too. Check out adidas Football's World Cup ad:

AKeys Makes Us Giddy

Ok, maybe it's just The Ordinary Girl who is obsessed over Superwoman and Swizzy's new baby mama, Alicia Keys. How dope was her 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Concert set? The best by far. Yes, even that last 5 seconds of her collab with Blk Jks on Brenda Fassie's Too Late For Mama that we got to peep. Thanks a lot SABC.

Before you start giving us the side-eye. We know Tumi was wack. We don't know why he got his collabo on with Shakira - who knew one was allowed to dry hump a monitor on stage? We don't know why he was dressed like a reject from Mashamplani. We don't know why he sounded more Pras than Wyclef and we don't know what's going to happen now that the Americans and Colombians have left. So many questions, not enough answers. Let's just hope a rap version of Waka Waka, featuring T From The V doesn't surface.

If we had that Karen Civil kinda money we'd spend our 9 - 5 time unpacking why we're not too thrilled about Tumi's stage antics. But we don't. So you'll have to settle for us being a day late and a Rand short if you want the full breakdown. In the meantime, smile at the mommy:


PS: Get at The Ordinary Girl if you know where (and more importantly, how much) the soon-to-be Mrs Beatz's top can be bought.

UPDATED TO SAY: WE'VE GOT VIDEO!!!! Giddynessoverload!

Embedding was disabled for the real high quality stuff. Sorry.

The Mothership In the Guardian

Black Rage Familia: Maria McCloy, Kulwano Skosana and Dzino (yep, just Dzino - one word, like Madonna)

For those of you that don't know, The Guardian is a UK publication that's known for some sick writing, yes, even on music. And if you weren't aware, The Mothership (rage.co.za to the normal folks) was recently mentioned in the 2010 FIFA World Cup story that you can read here.

We all know Maria - yes we're cool enough to have her on a first name basis and a speed dial, ha! - one of the co-founders of Black Rage as well as the online youth culture magazine, rage.co.za, is the biznis. So theblagg was most proud when we saw that Maria and their biznis was shown some international love.

So check out the article because Neil Spencer makes some pretty good points. And check out The Mothership errday allday to be kept up on the latest. And check out her vintage clothing sales in Greenside. That's where Dude bought the Puma hi-tops that look like they are stuck on yoThe Ordinary Girl always in. That is all.

Laduuuuuuuuuuuumadness?

Ok so it's been a minute since we gave you some sneaker love. Askies ne banayse! The Ordinary Girl remembers it like it was yesterday. Well, yesteryear to be exact. Dude and the fam lunched at the then newly revamped Melrose Arch in Jozi. Dude and Young Calibre were super stoked about the adidas Originals store that has been opened there. You'd swear it was made of Mr Sweet's Jelly Beans.

Anyway, the store was highly disappointing in its range and its pricelist. But the latter was to be expected, it is *pinches nose* Melrose Arch after all! Fast forward a couple of months and Dude happens upon a pair of blue and mustard adidas Gazelles. He's been in love with them since. To fully understand what I mean I have to tell you that the 6.0s seem to have been retired. Yeah. Meditate on that.

Dude loves sneakers, it's true. But I'm pretty sure he won't be camping out like a rabid hypebeast to buy any one of the new adidas Originals Gazelle 2 Laduma Pack sneakers. Now I'm not dissing the shoes, allow me to channel Common on this one: if I don't like them I don't like them, that doesn't mean that I'm hating.


The Pack was designed with the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup in mind. With special emphasis on the fact that this is the first Cup ever to be held on African soil. So what did adidas Originals go and do? Hook up patterns that are "African" (read colourful and busy) in their principal design, add a tribal looking icon on the tongue and couple that with an African football phrase just to round things off. Yep. Above one stripe is the word "Laduma" (meaning "Goal") in blood red.

I guess the suede is the only redeeming factor. I don't know if they are available in South Africa yet - don't ask me. But with the chokehold that FIFA has on everything else that has to do with our soccer, it's highly unlikely that you will get them onto your feet before someone is headbutted on the field.


Sneaker Obsession (where these pictures are borrowed from) seems to co-sign on these. Do you guys like them?