Events

The 2009 Independent Handbag Designer Awards™ Now With Matching Shoes

Designers, this is an opportunity you should not miss! Jump on it and spread it to your design buddies! What: Handbag Designer 101 presents the Third Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards™, the only handbag (and now shoe) design competition of its kind in the world applications process is now open. Sponsors include CRYSTALLIZED (™) – …

Fashion Weeks

Design Indaba 2009, Carducci Women Winter Collection ’09

Francois Rall for Carducci Women Winter 2009 incorporates a lot of juxtapositions. For example, straw hats juxtapose finely tailored suits while long dresses are contrasted with platform strappy sandals. Nevertheless, the collection does not lose focus, which is to remain timeless, especially in this recession prone times.

Fashion Weeks

Design Indaba 2009, Fashion Shows-Backstage

Design Indaba is one of South Africa’s largest trade event representing various sectors of South Africa’s design industry. The trade event has two major offerings, the Design Indaba Conference and the Design Indaba Expo. The Conference gathers the brightest minds in graphic design, advertising, film, music, fashion design, industrial design, architecture, craft, visual art, new …

Fashion Weeks

Momo Introduces the Nigerian Gele “Proper, Proper” at London Fashion Week

Fati Asibuela, the brain behind the Nigerian fashion label MOMO which showed at New York Fashion Week Fall 2009, is on a roll! Just completing New York Fashion Week, she headed to London Fashion Week to show another collection. While most of the clothing designs remained the same as what she showed in New York, …