Fall-Winter 2009
Launching in August 2009, the Roxy Heart by Zakee Shariff collection taps into her signature style of "street but chic". Music and a big love of nature and the four elements: air, water, fire and earth has always been a huge inspiration for her artwork, and this continues with the Roxy Heart Collection.
The spirit of the collection is based around the lines from a song by the Steve Miller Band called "Fly Like and Eagle" the main section of the song reads:
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution.
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution
"Ultimately the song evokes an essence of what I feel represents myself and how I feel the world needs to change. The collection talks about my love of nature, and of doing right in the world. I like the feeling of freedom that it gives me which together with helping the world is an on going theme of mine... and that is what I have tried to bring to the prints and garments." Zakee comments.