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Artisans
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‘Responsible Fashion for Africa’: A Concept Employed to Empower Africa’s Female Artisans

Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a programme of the International Trade Center (ITC), highlighted the role of fashion as a catalyst for economic growth in Africa at the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development...
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Competitions
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Africa’s Quest for Talent: Two New Shows Brings Top Models & Designers to the World

Nigeria’s Next Top Designer is an initiative of Africa Fashion Week London and EbonyWorths. EbonyWorths is a leading model management, profile styling, event planning outfit for emerging talents in the modeling and fashio...
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Textile Event
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Update:The 3rd Future Fabrics Expo will once again be hosted in London

Update about the next Future Fabrics Expo organized by The Sustainable Angle: the 3rdFuture Fabrics Expo will now take place in London towards the end of 2013 The CIFF Future Fabrics Fair and Conference, due to take place in Co...
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Artisans
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Della and Faarrow bring the Party to Hollywood this Friday

With the launch of their amazing collection with Urban Outfitters (article to follow) and their previous colab with Apple creating iPad cases, this Made in Ghana brand are doing amazing work promoting African production and sup...
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Boutiques
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ASOS AFRICA Goes Bright Bold and Printastic for their SS13 Collection

Fashion online boutique ASOS have launched their new ASOS Africa SS13 collection. Taking inspiration from East Africa, the 19 piece collection offers bright, bold and striking prints. The combination of green and yellow to...
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Campaign
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Cotton Made in Africa Fashion Contest – Winner Announced

To mark the occasion of the Cotton made in Africa Fashion Contest, design student Michelle Thornhill created a t-shirt that combines traditional African prints with modern design. The shirt is available at the OTTO online shop ...
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Crafts
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Mikuti is launching a new collection of Bangles for 2013 – The Ceres Bangle

Designer and founder Erika Freund launched Mikuti in 2009, while she had been attending graduate school at New York University. At the time she was studying social work, but was very interested in economic development, so she t...
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Designers
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Dressing up with Chichia London – AW13 Collection “PROJECT GAUNI: THE DRESS CONCEPT”

London-based label Chichia by Tanzaniain designer Christine Mhando has recently launched yet another amazing collection. We, just lastweek gave you a snippet of this AW13 collection which was on display at the British Council ...
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Competitions
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Project Runway season 12 is now casting – African Designers get applying! COMPETITION

Project Runway season 12 is now casting! Have what it takes to show your stuff at New York fashion week? This is your chance! ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: • You must be at least 21 years of age by June 1, 2013. • You must be e...
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