Happy anniversary to Ladybrille Magazine and to you Ladybrillers! Thank you for helping us celebrate you the brilliant woman and African fashion for eight wonderful years. If you missed Ladybrille alumna Elfonnie Inokon-Anusionwu’s feature with yours truly, please revisit the interview below to learn how Ladybrille started. Thank you for your continued support and we …
“Simple slip-ons have been the secret ingredient in Rachmat Thomas’ success story. The fashion entrepreneur’s shoe factory used to employ 90 people, but these days demand from South Africa’s largest apparel retailers is so high, she needs the skills of 300 workers. “The success story about this pump is that it is all handcrafted,” says …
“Work is dignity,” says Simone Cipriani. “People want employment, not charity.” With that in mind, Italian-born Cipriani founded a programme in 2009 called the Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) that links some of the world’s top fashion talents to marginalised artisans – mostly women – in East and West Africa, Haiti and the West Bank. Now …
“Less than a month after US legislators introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress seeking to renew the signature African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for another 10 years, the proposed law sailed past its first hurdle with overwhelming approval in the Senate during a May 14 vote. This paves the way for the AGOA legislation, which is …
More than 1,250 participants are taking part in the 25th World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa from 3 to 5 June 2015. The theme of the meeting is “Then and Now: Reimagining Africa’s Future”. The Co-Chairs of the World Economic on Africa are: Antony Jenkins, Group Chief Executive, Barclays, United Kingdom; …