Zimbabwe Fashion Week kicks off this Thursday. However, amidst the frenzy of fashion week, has been a different frenzy, that of negative publicity and statements regarding the credibility of the event. The founder of Zimbabwe Fashion Week, an ex-fashon model herself, was accused of starving models, not paying her third party vendors, among other claims. …
In 2009 Priscilla Chigariro-Gessen founded Zimbabwe Fashion Week. Six years later, Chigariro-Gessen finds herself and her brand in the middle of a controversial dispute between her and a third party service provider (Jennifer Deiner of Group of Creatives) that she contracted with to help produce Zimbabwe Fashion Week. Deiner is the wife of the renowned …
We recently announced the upcoming Zimbabwe Fashion Week 2015 event on Ladybrille. Since then, we have been receiving news regarding designers pulling out, an alleged legal action contemplated against organizers of the event and much more. To get clarity about what exactly was going on so we could properly inform our audience, whom we had …
One of the biggest request I receive and continue to receive from law students, across the globe, is how persons interested in becoming a fashion lawyer, like myself, can obtain a degree in fashion law. So, you can imagine how truly thrilled I am to see my fashion law colleague Susan Scafidi continue her trailblazing …
The Fashion Law movement has been gaining momentum around the world, independent of our movement here in the States. A new addition to the movement is Africa, as South Africa begins to also make its Fashion Law voice heard. This is the second programming I am seeing from South Africa on Fashion Law educating its …
A few days ago, a U.S fashion retailer of African heritage selling fashion goods went on instagram to allegedly expose Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh for purchasing fake designer goods from her and refusing to pay. The retailer was pretty aggressive as she ranted and provided screen shots of her alleged conversations as evidence that the …