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Ladybrille® Fashion Business | (Video) Meet the Founders of JUMIA.com, Nigeria’s Largest Online Retail Store

“Jumia formerly Kasuwa is one of Nigeria’s top online retail stores with reach around the country. They offer a wide range of retail products and are proudly Nigerian. Backed by funds from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Jumia aims to take over the online retail space within a few years. We spoke to co-founders Tunde and …

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Supermodel Iman Boycotts Designer Phoebe Philo Products Due to Non-hiring of Black Models

If you have been sleeping on the race discrimination debate ongoing in the fashion industry at large this fashion season, it’s time to wake up. I shared the legal implications with my fashionentlaw.com audience and invite you all to read the article here. In the meantime, Supermodel Iman continues the fight including calling out names …

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Are African Fashion Weeks a Waste of Money & Time for African Designers? #Africanfashion

Are African fashion weeks a waste of time and money for African fashion designers? Should African designers who are largely small business owners focus on: 1)creating brand awareness through social media and blogs, this includes showing their collections online. New York Fashion Week just wrapped up with 630,000 online viewers. That says a lot about …

Review: (Video) Toronto Hosts City’s First African Fashion Week #Africanfashion

In mid-August, more than a dozen designers from the African diaspora gathered in Toronto for the city’s first ever African Fashion Week. Watch the review about the event below: Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion and …

Africa Style Daily’s Zandile Blay Named Editor-in-Chief of HELLO! Magazine Nigeria

Ladybrille congratulates Africa Style Daily’s Zandile Blay who has been named the Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched Hello! Magazine Nigeria. Blay is also a Fashion Journalism Professor at Syracruse University. Read Blay’s first Editor-in-Chief message in her role as Editor in Chief for Hello! Magazine Nigeria. -Uduak Oduok “Welcome to the new online home of …