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


 
 

 
Designers

“Dakar city of birds” an experimental, curious and diverse AW15 collection by Selly Raby Kanw

We always love to see fresh new stuff coming from African designers. We believe these designers have something more to add and are making a stand for their space in the global fashion industry. And we feel that it is designers ...
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Boutiques

Beyonce NO! Yes Please Bloomingdales! Why I am so divided.

BEYONCE V BLOOMINGDALES… I had to take this discussion on to my youtube channel to give a Fashion in Five series on the topic due to new news that added to my thoughts already about Beyonce and an Intellectual Property i...
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Fashion

Adama Paris brings Black Fashion Week back to Paris this November – EVENT

Adama Paris Fashion Events founded by Senegalese designer Adama Paris in 2002. With 13 years of experience with Dakar Fashion Week and an edition of the Afrika Fashion Awards, Adama Paris and her team launched the Black fashion...
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Boutiques

Soko Stingo – Introduces Africa’s Style Market

Soko Stingo is a Swahili term which stands for style market. This event is a new lifestyle market birthed to feature brands from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the rest of Africa. This will be an avenue to showcase as well as...
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Fashion

FIMA 2011 a tribute to the Black Diaspora – EVENT

We are all very passionate about this beautiful international event, FIMA, which features cultural events: Fashion, Music, Arts to celebrate creation, its fundamentals and developments. Despite that Alphadi’s workshops in the...
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Fashion

PUMA Launches 2012 African Football Kits At Design Museum, London

Last night PUMA revealed the 2012 technical football kits for PUMA’s ten partnered African National football teams. The designs were commissioned from a selection of leading ten Creative African Network (CAN) artists fro...
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Books

Berg Publishers presents Africa

‘Africa’ is a single reference volume on dress and fashion in this region. The volume was originally part of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, which explores, in 760 articles and 3.6 million words, the dre...
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Artisans

Design From Africa – The International Trade Centre Ethical Fashion Initiative calls African Fashion Designers!

We are excited about this recent callout to African designers that came to our inbox and so we are happy to share it with you. Organised by the Ethical Fashion Initiative a segment of the International Trade Centre they are see...
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Batik

Vogue Talents x ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative with Sophie Zinga & Studio One Eighty Nine

As part of the Ethical Fashion Initiative’s programme to support and promote new generation fashion design talent from Africa, Senegalese brand, Sophie Zinga and Ghanaian brand, Studio One Eighty Nine participated in Vogue It...
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