Coming off the heels of the just completed ThisDay/Arise Magazine: African Fashion Collective show at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, Fall 2009, ThisDay Newspaper claims two US retail giants are looking to manufacture and stock in their retail outlets, nationwide, with collections of some of the African fashion designers who showed at fashion week.“But by …
Tiffany Amber, ThisDay/Arise Magazine: African Fashion Collective Fall ’09
While major publications are hailing the arrival of African designers in New York; and highlighting Grace Jones on the runway, none have offered any real, much less meaningful analysis on the designs, trends and colors that these African designers showed at fashion week. Accordingly, we take the lead in doing so by starting with the …
Nigerian Fashion and Accesory Designers
One of the inquiries we get quite often is “who are the top Nigerian fashion designers you recommend?” We decided to revisit a list of the recurring names in Nigeria’s fashion industry within and outside the country. We’ve also included a few accesory designers we absolutely love! Accesories Jewelry by Anne [London/Lagos] Onna Ehrlich [Los …
How Much Would you Pay for an African Designer Label?
Balenciaga,Oscar De la Renta, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Ferragamo, Gucci, Galliano, YSL and the list goes on. Most of the fashion-forward would not think twice about spending the money on such high end brands. The reason is pretty simple. Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, for example, who is now deceased, was known as a designer’s designer …