This New York Times article is fascinating. Although admittedly it is also very very long. M.I.A immediately hit Twitter to give out the writer LYNN HIRSCHBERG's phone number cos she was so disgruntled. Which is fairly childish. I still cant wait for the album though.
EXTRACT HERE
Maya seemed to be going for a combination of sexy and militaristic. She showed the girls her fabric ideas on her computer, and they were amenable. “Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world,” Maya said for no apparent reason. “And African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.” The designers said they thought that was terrible. “The best sportswear is on Blackwater operatives,” Maya continued, referring to the agents who were clandestine guns for hire in Iraq. The designers nodded, but they clearly had no idea what she was talking about. “I want to have a uniform like theirs.”
Oh and there are some great NYT pics here
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