This article completes our main features for March 2008. Congrats! You’ve decided you want to own your own business. You did the prerequisite self- evaluation. Now it’s time to choose the name for your business. If you decided to go with purchasing a franchise, per our last talk, then you don’t have much of a …
Academy of Art University, San Francisco: Fall ’08 Collection
We have been meaning to publish this feature on the designs by the graduating students of the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. We just never got around to it! But our Ella Brown Couture interview reminded us to share the excellence that comes out of the Academy of Art with you. Here we go …
11th Annual Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Review
India’s fashion industry has done an excellent job of claiming its seat at the world’s fashion table. Its strong creativity and breathtaking designs in rich fabric palettes including, very often, ornate brocades and embroideries that are out of this world, have contributed significantly to helping turn India’s economy around. Indeed, leading Indian designers such as …
Supermodel Oluchi Claims SA Fashion Magazines Are Racist
Oluchi joins a pool of black Supermodels such as Iman, Naomi Campbell and more in challenging fashion publications on their racist stance when it comes to African/Black faces on the covers of their publications. Here, Oluchi points the fingers at Western publications based in South Africa. Do you think Oluchi has a legitimate point under …
SXSW Africa 2.0 Preliminary Report
The SXSW Conference was absolutely fantastic! From March 7th-16th, about 400,000 people converge on the city of Austin to talk music, film and interactive media and seriously party like rockstars! The local news reported the City of Austin estimated making approximately $100 million from the SXSW conference. Wow! AUSTIN CITY BABY! I loved, loved Austin. …
USAID Apparel Exhibit Puts Africa on the U.S. Trade Map
WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has won the best exhibit award at one of the apparel industry’s largest trade shows. Fifteen companies receiving aid from USAID’s three trade hubs in Africa showcased garments with unique fabrics, patterns and colors at the Feb. 12-15 event in Las Vegas known …