Check out the list of Arise African Fashion Week designers that will show at the 1st Annual Arise Africa Fashion Week 2009 which will be held at the Sandton Convention Center, Johannesburg in South Africa. Eight days of fashion, 51 designers from 23 African countries serving up sexy, innovative and brilliant fashions during the FIFA …
“Satolicious” by Tanzania’s Mustafa Hassanali
As African fashions continue to gain momentum the world over, seasoned African fashion designers are stepping up the ante and in instances delving into markets you wouldn’t typically find them. For Tanzania’s Mustafa Hassanali, it was a combination of both with the showing of his new collection titled ‘Satolicious’ at Tanzania’s New Mwanza hotel in …
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 …
Aschobi Designs to Debut at Harvard Africa Business Conference
Our October Ladybrille Woman of the Month, Adama Kai owner of Sierra Leone’s Aschobi Designs, will be showing her Fall 2009 collection at the 11th Annual Harvard Africa Business Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday, February 20th, 2009. We caught up with Adama for a sneak preview on what to expect for Fall 2009. LADYBRILLE.com: …
MOMO: This/Day Arise Magazine, African Fashion Collective Fall 2009
In these very tough economic times where fashion designers have scaled back on shows at New York Fashion Week and some not show at all, for each African Fashion designer who showed at fashion week, there had to be something that made each one stand out when pitied against their American/International counterparts. Something memorable. Basically …