EMMA DABIRI LAUNCHES

Marfa Muse and best-selling author Emma Dabiri has officially launched her third book ‘Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty’. Dabiri grapples with the complicated and messy history of beauty, and how our constantly evolving standards are entrenched in oppressive systems that hold us back. This book explores how to rebel and subvert, offering alternative ways of seeing beauty by drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, in the effort to find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.

HIKARI YOKOYAMA

Hikari Yokoyama launches NAUM STUDIO as part of NAUM HOUSE. A full service design studio that creates vessels for human experiences to take place. NAUM HOUSE presents a series of online group shows curating a collection of objects, design, and art around a thematic line of inquiry and sits alongside NAUM FLOWER regenerative floristry.

MARFA STANCE X LINGUA FRANCA

This month saw the launch of our collaboration with our friend and Marfa Muse Rachelle McPherson of Lingua Franca, offering the first ever chance to customize our best-selling and original reversible Signature Quilt in the unique hand embroidered style Lingua Franca are renowned for. Available for a limited time online and sizes are already selling out! 

JUNE SARPONG

June Sarpong has curated her new group art show at the Saatchi Gallery, ‘Filling in the Pieces in Black’, which brings together a collection of some of the most talented contemporary artists with a connection to the African Disapora, through the power of their visual storytelling. Filling in the Pieces in Black aims to help redress the imbalance of power so often felt by the black community by bringing together a collection of some of the most talented artists of today who are using their creativity to help shape a more rounded narrative of Black culture. Through the power of their visual storytelling the exhibition seeks to Redefine the past, Refocus the present and Reshape the future. The exhibition runs from 31st October to the 26th November.

NAOMI WATTS

Naomi Watts celebrates the one year anniversary of her brand ‘I am Stripes’, a beauty and wellness brand focused on menopause health. The purpose of Stripes was to make change, inspire individual confidence, and help generations prepare for and navigate menopause. Stripes is mission-driven, looking to spark nuanced, frank conversations surrounding menopause itself, and has created its own product line catering to the cause.

SHARMADEAN REID

Entrepreneurial force and Marfa Muse Sharmadean Reid MBE is hosting a new 10 week program ‘New Methods for Women’, offering weekly Zoom sessions, newsletters and discussion groups. This community offers access to a unique and supportive group of women who will come together to connect, share experiences, and learn from one another while exploring the nuances of essential topics, enabling and encouraging each other to grow, heal, and thrive.