The First African Fashion Study From Unesco Explores Opportunities As Well As Challenges.
The report's release is scheduled for October 26, 2023, during Nigeria's esteemed Lagos Fashion Week. A worldwide panel of prominent people and businesspeople will discuss how African fashion designers may act as catalysts for sustainable development during the event. Today, African fashion is booming. Fashion weeks galvanize markets and creators in 32 countries across the continent, from Casablanca to Nairobi, via Lagos and Dakar. The growth in e-commerce, which attracted 28 percent of Africans in 2021 compared to 13 percent in 2017, has led to an increase ...
Read More
Africa Is Emerging As A New Source Of Inspiration For Global Fashion, According To Lexy Mojo-eyes.
The new pan-African event we host is called Africa Celebrates. With 18 participating African nations, it was launched in 2021. The number of participating nations has increased this year compared to last, when 32 African nations took part. Africa It honors art, culture, heritage, technology, and business. Africa Celebrates 2023 will have the theme "Achieving African Integration through Art, Culture, Heritage & Business Leveraging on AFCFTA Implementation." This year, Africa Celebrates takes place in October in the Addis Abeba headquarters of the African Union.
Read More
Kibera Fashion Week: Kenya’s Largest Urban Slum Experiences Fashion Week
The neighborhood where Avido lives and works, Kibera, has a population of roughly 250,000. From Bruno Mars to Beyonce, international icons have been drawn to his designs. The Goethe Institute, the European Union, Nairobi Design, and the Masai Mbili group are just a few of the partnerships the show boasts. It has also brought together 11 designs from 376 candidates with a wide spectrum of styles employing cotton, jute, wool, pearls, and even metal. Unrelated to Avido, designer Pius Ochieng went for a "...
Read More
Fashion is Moving in a Radical Direction Thanks to Afrofuturism
Fashion, music, and all forms of art in general, present an opportunity to envision the kind of future we would like to live in. But looking to the future is incomplete without a clear view of the past, and practitioners of Afrofuturism are presenting their dreams and realities grounded in this very understanding. Shaped by sci-fi, fantasy and history, Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic exploring alternative narratives for the black experience. Race relations, class and a history of colonialism inform ...
Read More
Luxury Fashion Meets Athletic Performance: MCM And PUMA Hoops Score Big With Third Collaboration
The wait is over for fashion-forward basketball enthusiasts as MCM and PUMA Hoops are launching the third and final drop of their highly anticipated collaboration for Autumn/Winter 2023. This collection promises to be a luminous take on athletic classics, featuring vibrant ready-to-wear pieces and a show-stopping edition of PUMA‘s TRC Blaze Court Shoe, set to turn heads both on and off the court. Inspired by the electrifying energies of the basketball lifestyle and hip-hop subculture, the latest collaboration celebrates ...
Read More
