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Fashion Events
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Africa Fashion Week Los Angeles Presents “Africa Is Rising”

AFWLA teams with local, national and international sponsors for pre-marketing event in Downtown Los Angeles. On Thursday, August 30th, Africa Fashion Week Los Angeles (AFWLA) will host “Africa Is Rising”, a networking socia...
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Designers
LAURENCEAIRLINE’s SS13 collection

Laurence Airlines on route for 2013 – NEW collection!

LAURENCEAIRLINE is a fashion label based out of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the hometown of LAURENCEAIRLINE’s chief designer, Laurence Chauvin Buthaud. Born in Africa, childhood in Switzerland and moving to Paris, Buthaud can...
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ROMERO BRYAN AW12 Black Knotted dress

Romero Bryan Headline Designer at Congo Fashion Week this week!

We are excited to feature fellow British Jamaican designer Romero Bryan. From a young age London-born Romero Bryan aspired to become a world-renowned fashion designer and he began to hone his skills for design and creation at ...
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Kente
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The Art of Weaving in West Africa, an Endangered Tradition

At Africa Fashion Guide we recently invited our AFG Consultant Kibamba Nimon to write a guest feature about an area that not only she is passionate about but one that myself, Jacqueline Shaw is obsessed about when it comes to A...
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Boutiques
Petra of Gye Nyame Japan

Are you an African Shoe / Bag Designer? Opportunity to Showcase in Tokyo Boutique!

Callout to designers! Petra A. Laptiste, Founder & Creative Director of Gye Nyame Japan wants to see the African & Caribbean fashion diaspora make a positive mark on Japan. She has been working closely with her clie...
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Boutiques
Shop Africa 2

Fashion Africa – Business Analysis – What Does Your Website say About You? Part 2

Welcome to the second edition of the “What does your website say about you” series. Today I will be looking at three online boutiques serving the African fashion market in the UK. In the last 2 years, there has been a rapid...
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Congo Fashion Week – Ready to showcase this August!

Congo Fashion Week is happening this year in Brazzaville, Congo from 17-19 August 2012! This city of Brazzaville at the Hotel Olympic Palace for the first time in history Congo will be hosting a mutli-day event Fashion show. T...
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OKUN SS13 collection

ÒKUN brings African print to the Ocean – DESIGNER

ÒKUN is an African-inspired quality swimwear brand, forged out of the desire to communicate a new message in printed beachwear through the bold colours and language of African print. Their SS13 collection is infused with the...
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‘Fashion Africa’ featured brand Lalesso SS13 Collection shown at Mercedes Benz Cape Town Fashion Week

Lalesso was featured in our  coffee table book Fashion Africa (launched September2011) and was formed by co-designers Olivia Kennaway and Alice Heusser after a holiday to Lamu Island off the north coast of Kenya. Both Olivia a...
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