IMG announced today the line up of fashion designers who will show at New York Fashion Week Spring/summer 2010. It is a line up of designers known for their delicious designs. There are a few newcomers like the ThisDay/Arise African Fashion Collective who showed this past fall. For the African Fashion Collective show, we already …
AFI’s Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Ladybrille Magazine Woman of the Month
New York Fashion Week is literally right around the corner! As the fashion industry prepares for a spectacular week, this September, of fabulous shows, paparazzi, fashionistas, beautiful models, great parties and of course the business of fashion, an equally fabulous show prepares to kick off in South Africa, Arise Capetown Fashion Week. Behind the scenes working …
The B. Michael Ladybrille Magazine Interview
LADYBRILLEmag.com: You have mentioned Sophie Okonedo as one of the personalities whose style sense you enjoy, especially in “Hotel Rwanda.” With your globally informed fashion sense, what is your take on African fashions? B.Michael: I think it epitomizes the richness of what fashion can be and by rich I mean in terms of color and …
Arise Africa Fashion Week ’09, Alphadi
“Seidnaly Sidhamed, alias Alphadi, was born in 1957 in Timbuktu (Mali) to parents who worked as traders. In Niger, he grew up surrounded by his eight brothers and sisters, where he discovered his love of fashion. Now, having worked for more than twenty five years in the fashion world, with 500 fashion shows organized throughout …
Arise Africa Fashion Week ’09, Eric Raisina
“Eric Raisina is essentially a designer of three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. This combination makes his fashion unique and universal. Always interested in experimenting with designs, it was chance that took him from his hometown in Madagascar to Paris to study design at the Ecole Duperré. In 1993 he won the Young Fashion Designer …