A little girls dream

My love for magazines started in high school after I had out-of-the-weird-blue discovered my talent in drawing and love for fashion. It started in grade 7 when our teacher asked us the question...''What do you want to be when you grow up''? My friend shouted, "A fashion designer!" I didn't even know what in sams hill that meant, but one thing was for sure, I wanted to be that too! After the revelation I then started tracing clothes and models from magazines, to one day realizing I could cope without the tracing and do a better job at that. Ever since then, I found myself religiously working towards purchasing fashion magazines every month, and that included selling cookies and lolly pops which became a lucrative small business.

I still carry a nebulous memory of the day my mother refused to give me pocket money for a mag because she had been sick of cleaning magazines that were cobbled around the house. It was that very month that I decided to be creative and make my own. I stuck pictures from old magazines on folded A4 paper and wrote my own articles, I photocopied the whole stack of papers, folded them in half and stapled them together to form a little newsletter like thing, consisting of only 20 pages which I proudly called Designed. I literally took it everywhere I went and showed it to all my friends and family -forcing them to page it and be in awe of my work almost every day (I don't remember ever loving a "mag" so much!).

With the inevitable passing of time, I grew up, let go of childish ways and finally could afford my monthly dose of the glossy pages without having to run sales. All my ELLE mags missed the letter J  and Burger on every editors letter, leaving only ackie to take all the credit; while the others had to be totally scratched out as none of the letters could be manoeuvred to give credit where it wasn't due. These were my silly ways and acts of faith which embarrassingly continue to be even today. 


My love for fashion and magazines still remains and one day I believe I will type Ackie Ndlovu on a glossy fashion magazine without privately de-moting Jackie Burger,Pnina Fenster, Aspasia Karras and Sbo Mphungose from their well-deserved seats with tippex!