Fashion Weeks

Arise Africa Fashion Week Parties up With Launch Party!

New York fashion week is usually preceded with an official launch party before the going really gets going! Arise Africa Fashion Week is no different. For a fast approaching week that is nothing short of “bringing down da house,” the producers of Arise African Fashion Week, industry movers and shakers including celebs,designers, models, producers, fashion …

Models

Use Black Models or Pay $120,000 Says Brazil to Brazil Fashion Producers and Designers.

Brazilian prosecutors and organisers of Sao Paulo Fashion Week have reached a deal over claims that too few black and mixed-race models are taking part. Under its terms, fashion brands must ensure that 10% of the models are of African or Indigenous descent. Last year, an investigation concluded eight of 344 the models taking part …

Fashion Weeks

Arise Africa Fashion Week, A New Day Dawns for African Fashions

African Fashion International (AFI), organisers of the Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban Fashion Weeks, is proud to announce ARISE Africa Fashion Week, a showcase of the continent’s leading fashion designers at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, from the 12 to 20 June 2009. ARISE Africa Fashion Week is five-year sponsorship agreement with ARISE Magazine, …

News

Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos, Says You Can Build Brands that Matter and Be Happy!

Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos, appears to be convinced happiness is a serious problem, at least among today’s entrepreneurs. It might be the basis for why he delivered a keynote speech titled, “Delivering Happiness,” to TIE CON 2009 mostly entrepreneur attendees on May 16th, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, California. Hsieh …