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HOT handbag- And what’s hotter than a RED patent clutch?!?!  This bag not only looks good, wait FABULOUS, but you will also feel just a little patriotic while rocking it.

FLY tank- Isn’t this cute???  And guess what?!  It’s called the ‘Fly By Tank’!  Now tell me you don’t want to be struting down the street looking FLY in your ‘Fly By’!!!

AMAZING shoes- Do you see these shoes??!! They are AMAZING!!!! I guarantee NO ONE else will be rocking these!  You will be the talk of the town, or at least the talk of whatever event you go to

Yep!  These are Anavaa Kisasa’s ‘TOP THREE MUST HAVES’…And YES we sell ALL three of these fabulous items at the store!  So come on in and get your outfit right for this weekend…or any weekend for that matter.

YES! as in the HIT television series ‘90210′!!!!!  Anna Lynne McCord fell in love with the ‘Hold Me Down’ in red patent leather.  Rumor has it that she may even wear it on the red carpet!!! YES! the RED carpet!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Anna Lynne!

In light of Barack’s recent declaration (yes, Barack, he and I are cool like that!), you know, June being National Caribbean-American Heritage month, and all, I figured it is only fitting to rename the Blackberry.  Yep, Caribbean people are on the come up, lol.   And to show my allegience to the Caribbean, mostly St. Vincent, but okay the Caribbean, I am now going to refer to my Blackberry as the Cariberry.  I love it!!!!!!!

Yep!! That’s right…..Anavaa Kisasa is in this week’s Life & Style Magazine!!!!  For someone that ALWAYS has alot to say…ummm…this has rendered me SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can say is….it’s in stores now and you BETTER get a copy…or two!

Yep! Yep!  Brooklyn rocks the best!  The best what? EVERYTHING!!!!! But you already know this!  Allow me to introduce….Gwen Beloti…Dynamic Diva and Fashion designer, born and raised in BROOKLYN!!!  If you have already taken a look at the ‘Clothing ‘ link on this site then I KNOW you all are drooling over the silk strapless number on the first page!  What? You didn’t see it??? You’re bugging!!! Stop reading take a look at the dress and come back to this post……..

You saw it??!! Dope right???!!!!! Told you!  Anyway big ups to Gwen for doing her thing, look out for her Spring ‘10 and Summer ‘10 collection…oh no she is NOT playing…

Where can you find her???? At Anavaa Kisasa!!!!!!! You know how we do

So I was just on the internet and I googled ‘Anavaa Kisasa’..YES!!!!! I google the company’s name!!! At least once a day!!! Whatever!! Anyway, in my search I found that Rebekah Potter, gave me/Anavaa Kisasa a nice little shout out on her blog.  Ahhhh Rebekah….Yep that’s what we designers do…we support each other…And the fact that she is from Brooklyn makes it even sweeter!  Brooklyn Stand Up!  You know how we do, Brooklyn Baby!!!

So shout out to Rebekah Potter and her blog http://theblokblog.blogspot.com/

Look who is rocking the  ’Hold Me Down’  in black croc from my Divaluxe Collection!!!   

   Madeline Zima from Showtime’s ‘Californication’  as well as a host of  other tv shows and movies.
Thanks Madeline for holding Anavaa Kisasa down!

ALOT!!!! don’t you think?? Well I do! Ok, let’s take my name for example…well of course I was going to use MY name as an example, what? you thought I was going to use YOUR name?? Ok, so my name is Zulema (duh)…When I was younger I went searching to find out  the meaning of my name. I asked this African vendor on the street once, YES! I asked an African vendor!! I mean my name is African!!!! Okay so when I asked, he answered “easy”. WHAT!??!! Hold me back!! You don’t know me like that!!! Seeing my face he said “no, no, not hard” Ummm..okay, so you are saying I’m soft now??!! This search was not starting off on a good foot. Sensing that I was about to steal his merchandise and run just because I was mad he went on “No, not hard to explain” HUH? So I figured I would help him out “Not hard to understand”? “Yes”….Oh okay I can live with that. I guess.  So for a long time I went around telling people that Zulema meant ‘not hard to understand’.  But then I got bored with that meaning and I did a search online..I know I should have done that in the first place.  In my search I find out that my name means ‘peace’  STOP LAUGHING!!!
Now the irony in all of this is that whenever someone asks me my name, they never get it, they can’t pronounce it and they never understand what I’m saying. “Zalima”? “Zulma”? “Zuma”? NO! NO! NO! ZULEMA! So no matter what meaning you choose they both go out the window because no one understands, clearly it IS hard to understand and then I am not very peaceful once they screw it up, look at me like I’m crazy or disregard my pronunciation and say whatever they want to.
The name challenge continues with the name of my FABULOUS boutique, look I already told you it is FABULOUS, pay attention! Yeah, the name of my FABULOUS boutique is Anavaa Kisasa.  And I can’t begin to tell you how that gets screwed up!  People resort to saying “AK”…umm that’s not the name of the store!!!!! But when I tell them the MEANING of Anavaa Kisasa, they get all tickled. You see it means ‘he/she dresses in fashion’. You like that huh? Yeah I know…
So again, I ask what’s in a name? Alot..Alot of meaning, alot of character, a name defines a person, it distinguishes one from another, yeah even if you share your name with another person.  For example, my name, YES, I’m using MY name again! I was named after an African singer named Zulema.  And I can’t sing to save my life! A now famous designer and I share the same name. You might know her, she was on Project Runway.  She was a beast on the show.  Some may say a b%!&* And all of you that know me, know that I am so not like that
Ok, the point I’m trying to make is this: Names are important, so pronounce mine and my company’s name correctly!! Get it!!

Hello World! Here I am! Hear me roar!!! Can I tell you that I am sooo happy to be blogging. Yes, I know I’m a bit late to the blog world but as I always say “better late than never”. But whatever! I’m here now and for the rest of my life, YES, the rest of my life I will be blogging about fashion, myself (not too much though I don’t need the whole world all up in my business ), my FABULOUS boutique, yeah, it’s FABULOUS, you better ask somebody, matter of fact come through..wait, I’m getting off track, where was I? Oh yes, so for the rest of my life I will be blogging about fashion, myself, my FABULOUS boutique, my killa handbags, life, you know all the stuff you want to talk about, and maybe some stuff you don’t want to talk about too WHAT??!! It’s MY blog, don’t like it?? Get your own!!! But I know you will enjoy our time together, I mean why wouldn’t you…I mean you have been sweating me for this long…where are you going now????  LOL But for real folks, we are going to have a good time, so go ahead and bookmark my website, YES BOOKMARK IT!!!!!! NOW!!! Because you don’t want to miss any episodes of  The AK Blog! Holla!!!!!!!