Kim Gray Stylist Fashion Decor Lifestyle Cape Town South Africa

Kehinde Wiley, an internationally acclaimed artist, has teamed up with PUMA to create four original works of art inspired by some of Africa’s greatest soccer hero’s - Samuel Eto’o, John Mensah and Emmanuel Eboué.  The four commissioned portraits will be used to build a PUMA limited edition collection of apparel, footwear and accessories, just in time for the 2010 World Cup when all eyes will be on Africa.

The partnership between Kehinde Wiley and PUMA includes an African Lifestyle collection featuring elements from eight existing works by Kehinde Wiley, to be released in January 2010.  Included in this collection are the ‘PUMA Lacelets’ and the ‘Tekkies Heroic Sisters’.

Now you can win this chic and sporty small hobo bag and Puma lacelets to vamp up your trainers and be Soccer World Cup Ready – Stylishly with Puma! I’m going! Are you?

TO WIN:

* Blog this competition and leave the link here

or

* Love = Football : Tell Puma and I who your favourite Soccer Star is!

Winner announced Friday 12 March. Good Luck Ladies!!!!

Kehinde Wiley, the internationally acclaimed, American-born painter who is famous for his decorative portraits of urban black men, has teamed up with PUMA for a creative project that will showcase contemporary African football legends in anticipation of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

In June of 2009, Wiley traveled to Cameroon, Ghana, and Côte D’Ivoire to collaborate with three of Africa’s most prominent football players, Samuel Eto’o, John Mensah and Emmanuel Eboué, in order to create a series of four original artworks featuring the players. The process was a true collaboration, as Wiley sat down with each individual player in their hometown to discuss the paintings and allow the players to have a voice in their own representation. “I wanted the history of African art to be the fulcrum point through which we see these athletes. I wanted the players to sit down with me and go through the art history books… in some ways, to respond to what I was responding to”, Wiley says.

The partnership between Kehinde Wiley and PUMA  includes an African Lifestyle collection featuring elements from eight existing works by Kehinde Wiley.

Love the collection, great sneakers, and hows the bag? Cute I’d say!!