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


 
 

 
Kente

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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Designers

Abla Volta – Designer PROFILE

3 words to describe Abla Volta roots, grace and sophistication. Looking at her work is a mix of staring at the cover of an Elle Magazine and watching a Hagan Daz advert. I was seriously tempted to either devour the photos or li...
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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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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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Artisans

Charity Nest, Collaborative Group, design label MAIYET and their African connection

In 2006, Rebecca Kousky founded Nest, an innovative social enterprise enabling talented women artisans in India, Guatemala, Togo, the Dominican Republic, and other developing countries, to build and/or maintain art or craft-ba...
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