African Fashion: The Gateway to Style, Innovation, and Trends | October 14th & 15th | Join the 10th Anniversary edition of African Fashion and Design Week 2022.
African Fashion and Design Week (AFDW) was founded by Queengold D. Sekibo with the goal of establishing opportunities for networking and celebrating one another in the African fashion industry. Give up-and-coming designers the tools they need to build a solid brand that will enable them to support themselves and open up work prospects and global promotion of African fashion
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The Contemporary Womenswear Brand Asantii
Asantii was established on a strong commitment to uplift everyone who works and collaborates with us, embracing the spirit of Ubuntu, a belief in our shared humanity. Everything we do is motivated by the principle of ubuntu (giving back), from prioritizing the needs of our employees and their families through corporate social responsibility to promoting the individual brands of our designers through capsule collections.
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Lagos Fashion Week And Africa Fashion Week Nigeria Make A Triumphant Return.
This year's event promises to be at the forefront of promotion of African indigenous textiles, colors, and design with the sole goal of exposing African creatives on a worldwide platform as African fashion continues to dominate the global fashion landscape. The Lagos Fashion Fair Exhibition and Africa Fashion Week Nigeria joint event this year will provide fashion consumers, industry experts, trendsetters, stylists, models, and designers with the opportunity to shop at discounted prices, forge business connections, and build networks with ...
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A New African Fashion Narrative Is Being Created, And Designers Think It’s About Time.
The exhibition is a reminder that more documentation on African fashion is needed. “There hasn’t been a lot of information documented on African fashion for people to utilise, and not many people have had the opportunity to learn about African fashion,” says Frederica Brooksworth, executive director at the Council for International African Fashion Education (CIAFE). “With this exhibition, I do believe a lot of people’s minds will be open and their perception of African fashion will change. And ...
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The Kenyan Fashion Label Ikeno Clothing Was Inspired By Life On Lamu Island
Ikeno relies on recycling items that capture the essence of the island because it uses its rhythms and echoes. According to Bornman, who sources the fabrics for her collections from India, "Ikat handwoven cloth from India has always been exported to East Africa and all the way to Lamu." It is impossible to avoid being inspired by the Swahili, Arabic, Persian, and Indian influences of the region's past given the confluence of art and trade that makes up the culture ...
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