Showing posts with label Africa Fashion Guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa Fashion Guide. Show all posts

Friday 14 December 2012

AFG 1st Birthday Celebration

Nairobi Launch Review

Seems like only yesterday when I sat down with Jacqueline Shaw in a little cafe down Goodge Street in London, exchanging views and discussing our passion (textiles) and our goals and other interests in the fashion industry in general.  A few months later, Anna Luks was one of the first African diaspora clothing designer labels being featured on the AFG in early 2011.  Anna Luks was launching its 1st summer collection after graduating in 2010.  

Here we are one year later, Africa Fashion Guide has become one of the most informative bodies in the Fashion Industry globally.  AFG has penetrated the innermost parts of Africa and highlights information that we might never have known existed.   
"Cotton made in Africa is an initiative of the Aid by Trade Foundation that helps people help themselves through trade"  Farmers in Zimbabwe   

AFG's aims (mentioning a few)  in provide a platform as well as promote African Fashion and Textile industry globally.  They also feature African designers wherever they are including, craftsmanship, manufactures, retailers, and textile designers worldwide.  In addition to this AFG greatly supports the economic development in Africa, i.e., the use of ethical and sustainable textiles by encouraging trade relationships over just Aid and World Fair Trade Organisations principles (WFTO). To sum it all up AFG is all about aesthetics and ethics in fashion today.

Cotton in Tanzania - African Cotton Campaign



Happy 1st  Birthday AFG

AFG is celebrated its 1st birthday on 9th September this year in style.  What other way of celebrating, none other than in very grounds of its motherland itself, Nairobi the capital city of Kenya in East Africa.  AFG hosted this celebration 2 months ago in October 2012 with a seminar that consisted of a three-panel discussion with the international industry leaders.

Jacqueline Shaw founder of AFG at the seminar in Nairobi


All images, courtesy of AFG
read more about the event here;








Sunday 18 December 2011

Future Fabrics Expo 2011

African Fashion Guide News Report

The Future Fabric Expo was an exhibition of specially selected woven fabrics of higher quality that are trend relevant and suitable from mid to high nd fashion brands.  
This exhibition was held on for 2 days in the London College of Fashion's Oxford street campus last month.
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