Zimbabwe Fashion Week kicks off this Thursday. However, amidst the frenzy of fashion week, has been a different frenzy, that of negative publicity and statements regarding the credibility of the event. The founder of Zimbabwe Fashion Week, an ex-fashon model herself, was accused of starving models, not paying her third party vendors, among other claims. …
In 2009 Priscilla Chigariro-Gessen founded Zimbabwe Fashion Week. Six years later, Chigariro-Gessen finds herself and her brand in the middle of a controversial dispute between her and a third party service provider (Jennifer Deiner of Group of Creatives) that she contracted with to help produce Zimbabwe Fashion Week. Deiner is the wife of the renowned …
We recently announced the upcoming Zimbabwe Fashion Week 2015 event on Ladybrille. Since then, we have been receiving news regarding designers pulling out, an alleged legal action contemplated against organizers of the event and much more. To get clarity about what exactly was going on so we could properly inform our audience, whom we had …
THE Zimbabwe Fashion Week (ZFW) has been hit with fresh controversy after a South African company contracted to produce the fashion extravaganza suddenly quit, citing contractual disagreements with ZFW founder. ZFW was founded by Priscilla Chigariro-Gessen in 2009 and is touted as the country’s premier fashion event. Its main purpose is to provide a platform …