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. …
The Fashion Law Institute is turning five (5) this September and for its anniversary celebration, it will on September 9th, 2015, showcase a special event featuring African fashion designer Mimi Plange; who is an alumna of the Fashion Law Bootcamp® program, and a past participant of the School’s Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinics. Plange who will …
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 …
The Chale Wote Street Art Festival, which started in 2011, is an annual platform that brings the magic of art, music and dance along the historic High Street in James Town, Accra. The activities that transpire at the event are theatre performance, graffiti, live music performance, mural painting, spoken word, exhibitions, cultural dance, et al. …
Congratulations to Imran Ahmed and his team at Business of Fashion who recently announced the launch of a BofF Fashion Education platform for online learning. The platform is intended to be an online resource for fashion students, educators and entrepreneurs, with the support of River Island and The Communications Store. Thanks to the support of …