Conceptual beliefs as fashion

Nigerian woman in the Ankara style.

Ankara blend with the royalty of femininity and African strength designed from the soul!

African Woman powerful in presence and essence.

African fashion is made by the essence of African thought about African womanhood.

Stories Oft' not Heard.

Finally, an African woman, the darker hue captured by a photographer with a deep understanding of why this is important. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this. It is hard to find... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/10/18

Black woman captured by Thänx Chikusě‎ somewhere atop the world! 2018. 

African woman's pride captured by Thänx Chikusě's camera. [August 2018]

An African woman's pride is different from mere pride other women carry within. African woman's pride is an ideal situated and centered with vast sweeping tales grounded in old truths... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/10/18 

African woman shot by Thänx Chikusě. 2018.

Look 4 Ways

Torrie Blake by Dalton Campbell is Art.

Star Wars pin up by Andrew Tarusov (2015)

Joselyne John by Sarah Bowman Photography (2016)

Face by Salvator Dali

Tribute to the Nude.

body art in music notations. 

"Bathing in the out of doors is this lust she is inspiring, or divinity she exudes?"

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

photo by King Kesia 

Black ballerinas inspired by Misty Copeland.

Dark Women, the mystique of

classic African beauty captured by Alex Petch's camera.

Candy in a garden

Cherokee D'Ass at home in her kitchen free and happy!

Dark African beauty set against the color orange has a similar quality of a setting sun as a backdrop in an erotic drama! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/4/18 

IN the Wings of time: spaciousness.

Je crois qu’il y a pas de meilleur moment que quand nos efforts sont récompensés! 

I think there is no better time than when our efforts are rewarded!! 

Older women are enchanting when a man has grown into his manhood exploring the possibilities of knowing himself in a true form. Sexually, older women's allure isn't tender, it is strong. Its strength strengthens the loins with something that can get to a man with understanding! This is incomprehensible to youth. To young manhood it is too vague a notion with the hot fires of lust burning from need, need burning with multiple opportunities to get laid. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/27/18

Iman by Douglas Friedman at age 60.

"Black woman with ageless beauty and timeless play with her mortality."

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/27/18 

An older woman once told me that men are more drawn to younger women, I said in my "fake smooth" pose, "Well maybe, but some women have a 'girlish smile' that lasts a lifetime". This photo reminds me of the smile she gave me in response to my comment.

~ Caviar Nolastname writing about Sister Silver Foxes.  

Sade at 56 years of age.

Nancy Wilson age 78.

69 year old Susan Sarandon, the marvel of

Unbelievable and timeless beauty of Frances Fisher, actress, in 2012.

Grace Zabriskie as Old Crone

60 year old Dominique Daoust was

a celebrated model in the 1980's!

Dominique Daoust, age 60. In the 80s, Daoust performed in the runway shows of the late Georges Levesque. A celebrated Montreal designer, she also walked for Jean Paul Gauthier in the Mega Show Rendezvous ’87…Today she works as an actress. ~ anon 

a poignant moment to reflect.

Jeans worn by an elegant African woman is a different feel. What makes the difference is culture. What culture says to the African American community isn't a foreign language, it is a submerged memory speaking to the presence of our Ancestors. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/14/17 

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh, 55, featured in Pirelli's 2017 calendar

celebrating natural beauty and femininity.

Overwhelming this woman is. To the uninformed and the shy...

"Thick Black women have a power over charm that isn't about being better because they are better. Under played in the fashion industry, the national press and the perceptions about women preferred by paranoid white women obsessed with weight; Black women find themselves the envy of the slight, the bound and those held captive by other people's opinions.

In short, in some kind of way there is a freedom of theirs that is the envy of other women..."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Breathless wonders. . .

Helen Mirren, if I could I would!

Iman by Douglas Friedman at age 60.

CHAIRS

Parker McKenna Posey. 

Teasing by Thomas Kim.

Cross worn by an average woman on the surface with a beauty you gaze upon

and see what is hidden, what she hid more beautiful than lovely...

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

11/4/17 

Supreme. 

Melanin, its place in Life.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
[Tao Te Ching chapter 11]

Juno Brown by Ola Carlvik said, 'Destiny is belligerent.' Oct. 27, 2013.

Just playing!

Gaye McDonald

"The melanin's power is enviable from the perspective of those born without it, whose pineal glands are calcified at birth! Those full in their understanding of this power are capable of the extraordinary. How do you think the processes came to the Egyptian people in the long ago that formed their architecture, sciences, healing modalities and so on?" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/4/17

the Dignity

Portrait of Gaye McDonald, a Jamaican model.

TO Ponder.

tattooed and beautiful woman

Assassin's who are women are reputably more lethal because of what they deny, suppress, and kill within themselves... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4.19.16

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

We fear the concepts we don't understand. Not knowing they can change us isn't the fear, it is wondering how they will change us. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/3/17

African woman's gentleness is the style she wears.

Elegant is this backless V-neck wrap slim stretch dress. It is cloth, but cloth submits to transformation the way a woman submits to the forces within herself to be a woman. . . - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.11.17

What Do You Stand For & Stand Against?

[The] Flag of a country in internal conflict with its meaning. Its definition of freedom is contradicted by its limits to freedom, and misuse of the word to take from others land and life. God Bless America? What a statement! It is full of blood and denial made beneath honor from the strength of its chief document: the Doctrine of Discovery! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/10/17 

[The] African influenced bikini creates a style born from within. On the shore of the Atlantic it is a poignant verse in this moment answering the cries and questions from the Africans lost in the ocean during the Middle Passage. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/11/17 

Flag colors of the Black Liberation flag.

Red for the blood they shed, Black for the people they looted from, Green for the land they stole.

Creativity and Black Women!

Black designers have the stimuli of their ancestral lines with or without the burden of their European fashion designers. It is the rhythms that design their features in fabric available to all. What is inaccessible to Euro-American and European designers is the melanin tied to the ancestral powers developed for thousands of generations for today! That spiritual quality hidden in our collective crudeness is there. It is ever present! ... Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/7/17 

Butterfly creation of a African American design and creativity.

Outstanding simplicity of Adinkra, and the Bedouin influences created by the lexicon of Black Americans. These powerful influences are direct recollections of two people's ancestral lines. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/7/17 

Bikinis created for these Black women are influenced by West African spirituality and Nature, herself a Mystery!