Dubbed the Anna Wintour of South Africa’s fashion industry, Lucilla Booyzen is the founder and director of the prestigious South African Fashion Week (SAFW). In the early 1990s, Booyzen was an already established fashion producer who visited European Fashion Weeks, when she felt it was necessary that South Africa create its own fashion week to …
Arise Fashion Week, produced by Nigeria’s ThisDay Newspaper, is synonymous with glam and glitz, and the ability to get the global fashion industry to take notice of leading contemporary African designers globally. Its 2019 event was no exception. After a long hiatus and resumption of the prestigious fashion event last year, producers returned to Lagos …
Chef Toya Boudy went from being a young single mom raising a child in her hometown during Hurricane Katrina to working for Ladybrille as an intern, and now has a recurring role as a chef on the Food Network and Hallmark Channel. How did she get there? In her 2015 interview with Ladybrille Magazine, Chef …
Ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 100th richest person in the world, and the richest in Africa, Aliko Dangote began with a $3,000 loan from a relative. Today, he is a business magnate, investor, founder, and chairman of the largest cement producer on the African continent, Dangote Cement. His cement company has made Nigeria the …
Ever wondered what “blockchain” really means and how it applies to the fashion industry? If you are a fashion investor or industry professional, watch this breakdown by Ken Seiff and Peter Smith at the Business of Fashion VOICES conferences, held last year.
Our Ladybrille Woman inspirational quote of the week comes from Bisila Bokoko.The inspiring entrepreneur and powerhouse woman in her Ladybrille throwback interview of January 2015, said, “A lot of women (in business) believe you must be very masculine… I believe women in business should be super feminine…be who you are.” Listen to her full podcast …