Fashion

The Streets of Lagos Come to a Stand Still as TobaccoCtrl Launches Social Media Campaign with Flash Mob and Game app

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lagos, Nigeria August (27th), 2013 Tobacco Control Nigeria is a public health and policy change campaign project using Social Media to advance tobacco control and support the passage of a comprehensive Tobacco Control (TC) law compliant with the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). On Saturday the 17th of …

Business

Is “African Fashion” Profitable? Bono’s EDUN Records Accumulated Loss of $54.5 million! #Africanfashion #Fashionbusiness

Is African fashion profitable? There has been a lot of hype around “African inspired” and “African” fashion but how are our African owned or African produced businesses really doing? From event producers of glamorous fashion shows to the fabric and fashion designers, is there really any profit in “African” inspired/African fashion? Often many fashion entrepreneurs …

Designers

LOOKBOOK: LOVE April’s ‘Oversized Tribalism’ Pre-Collection Spring/Summer 2013

Love April an African inspired luxury line, created with the modern woman in mind, designed for comfort and freedom of expression through clothing. Every styleline, stitch and seam created is aimed to make a woman feel good and confident about her self. “This season we followed our natural instinct and creatively produced bold tribal prints. …

Designers

Video & Pictures: Kaela Kay Collections by Catherine Addai Spring/Summer 2013

Kaela Kay Collections is a forward thinking clothing line that transforms cultural fabrics into modern, sexy, yet feminine and fun clothes. Kaela-Kay Collections represents the modern woman who knows who she is intrinsically and stylistically, and who loves to pay homage to cultural roots through fabrics and textiles. Founded in 2012, ‘Kaela-Kay Collections’ was born …