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Fashion Business: Africa Fashion Week London & Côte d’Ivoire Fashion Week JOIN Forces to Promote African Fashion

London, (19th) November 2012 – The organisers of Africa Fashion Week London and Côte d’Ivoire Fashion Week are pleased to announce a new partnership which aims to see both fashion weeks working together to promote African fashion. Now in its second year, Côte d’Ivoire Fashion Week is set to take place on 20- 23 December …

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Fashion Business: SHF’s Omoyemi Akerele Quoted in New York Times – Fashion Weighs a Deeper Investment in Africa

  Omoyemi Akerele founder of Style House Files and the just concluded MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week was recently quoted in the New York Times, as part of the newspaper’s coverage of the IHT Luxury Conference held in Rome. “ROME — Has Africa’s golden moment arrived? For the gurus of the luxury world, the …

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VIDEO: IHT Luxury Conference 2012 The Promise of Africa: Ali Hewson, Bono, Renzo Rosso on Sustainable Fashion #IHTLux

One of the exciting panels at the 2012 IHT Luxury Conference was the panel with Ali Hewson, Co-Founder EDUN, Bono Co-Founder EDUN, Renzo Rosso, Founder of Diesel; President, OTB and Only The Brave Foundation; Millennium Development Goals Global Ambassador. Below are the conversations off twitter zooming in on Bono for this panel. In addition, watch the …

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IHT Luxury Conference 2012: WATCH Handmade in Africa: Simone Cipriani and Ilaria Venturini Fendi #IHTLux (Video)

We have been following the conversations closely on one of the most interesting luxury conferences held this year in Rome by the International Herald Tribune (IHT) . Themed “The Promise of Africa the Power of the Meditarranean,” the 12th annual  IHT Luxury Conference brings together over 500 delegates from 30+ countries to hear from the world’s most inspirational …

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OPINION: Omoyemi Akerele’s MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week, a BLUE PRINT For AFRICAN FASHION PRODUCERS to Follow!

I am a voracious reader and writer. So, five years ago when the disruption in the fashion industry began, I was reading as much as I was writing. On the Western end of things, fashion bloggers kicked the gate open and pushed aside the old gatekeepers. From Fashion Televisions, to top magazines and editor-in-chiefs, consumers …