Africa Fashion Guide
A social enterprise promoting sustainability within Africa's fashion and textile industry.


 
 

 
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Upcycled African fashion on a Volcanic archipelago

Mia launched her ethical fashion label MIA By Mia Nisbet back in 2008 with the aim of sourcing and producing her up-cycled fashion lines in Africa. Mia creates edgy fashion garments that fuse recycled fabrics with traditional A...
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May 5th Deadline! – ABURY Design Experience – using design to inspire change

The third edition of the ABURY Design Experience sends the winner to Ethiopia to preserve world crafts and culture through design After Ecuador (’15) and Morocco (’16) the winner of the ABURY Design Experience (ADEx) 2017 w...
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WE HAVE A WINNER! – The African Social Enterprise Fund – Sustainable Fashion Award 2017

Recently we had to partner with Prospero World on their African Social Enterprise Fund (ASEF) flagship programme. The ASEF aims to support young African pioneers in the Arts and creative industries, to become socially minded en...
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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL! Fashion Africa Voices event host Ivy Prosper gets close and intimate with guest speaker

Founder of Prosper Creative Group and the Ivy Prosper Foundation, Producer, Writer, Speaker, TV Host and women’s advocate Ivy Prosper will be hosting the upcoming first edition of Fashion Africa Voices seminar to be held ...
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Look who’s talking! – The Full line up of speakers for Fashion Africa Voices is in! Be there March 22nd

GHANA FASHION COMMUNITY! If you have yet to register for your ticket, you need to ASAP because the line-up for the upcoming Fashion Africa Voices seminar is looking HOT! Taking place in the heart of Ghana and the first edition ...
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Friends in Fashion – Fashion Forum Africa partners with Fashion Africa Voices March 22nd in Accra.

With a global fashion industry to be worth an estimated $2.4 trillion, according to the McKinsey Global Fashion Index, the importance of strategic partners in the fashion industry is key to growth and development. Most especial...
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About Africa Fashion Guide

 

AfricaFashionGuide is an information based platform for fashion professionals, students, retailers, magazines, bloggers and all those interested in African fashion and textiles. It was birthed with the focus to create an awareness campaign that promotes the full supply chain of the African fashion and textile industry with an ethical perspective and create links with the greater global textile industry.

AFG Mission

1-To Support Economic Development in Africa
2-To Promote the use of Ethical and Sustainable Textiles
3-To Encourage Trade Relationships over just Aid
4-To Support WFTO Fairtrade Principles
5-To Encourage Discussion and Implement Action
6-To Build active Relationships between Large Fashion Organisations (designers, fashion schools, media) in UK/Europe and African Designers, Manufacturers, Textiles Suppliers, Artisans and Workshops