It was only last year that Africa and the world saw two seemingly power houses Africa Fashion International (AFI) and Arise Magazine enter into what appeared to be a divine relationship, Arise’s sponsor of Africa Fashion Week produced by AFI. Some of the key terms of the agreement were: 1) co-naming rights of Arise Magazine …
Sanlam Pulls Sponsorship Plug On SA Fashion Week
A true dialogue on South African Fashion and its Fashion Weeks cannot even begin without discussion of what used to be South Africa’s preeminent Fashion Week, SA Fashion Week produced by Lucilla Booyzen. Over the years, SA Fashion Week has watched many competitors enter the market place, a really strong opponent being Africa Fashion International …
Ladybrille TV Interview, PRE SHOW Arise Promise of Africa Collective
Ladybrille’s Uduak Oduok gets the exclusive PRE-SHOW coverage of three of the designers that showed at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, Spring/Summer 2010. What is African fashion? Should a term like that even exist? Eric Raisina, Lisa Folawiyo of Jewel by Lisa Folawiyo and David Tlale. Location: 1410 Broadway. Arise: Promise of Africa Collective PRE-SHOW, …
After Party, Arise Promise of Africa Collective Spring/Summer 2010
L-R: Debbie Lee (CEO Black Entertainment Television), Uduak Oduok (President & CEO, Ladybrille Media Group, Inc.) & Designer Korto Momolu As the saying goes, “After the show is the After Party!” The Arise Promise of Africa Fashion Collective ended with South Africa’s finest, DJ Dino Moran, informing the audience about the location for the After …
David Tlale, Arise Promise of Africa Collective Spring/Summer 2010
David Tlale, winner of the Arise Fashion Award for Best Designer, this past June, was all about showing Africa’s diverse cultural heritage. His collection themed “Cultural Intimacy” was bold, dramatic and alluring, as he promised. It also helped that he had world supermodels like Tyson Beckford, Chanel Iman, Coco and Oluchi at his beckon. Tlale’s …