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Bringing Sustainable Fashion To Africa With The Redress Design Award

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Redress Design Award Lina Mayorga Eco Chic Design Award
23
Feb

The Redress Design Award is coming to Africa for the first time in 2018. The competition, dedicated to sustainable fashion, is allowing applicants from the Africa region for the first time this year. “2018 is the first truly global cycle of the competition and we’re excited to have already received our first ever entries from Africa– a continent that is bursting with creativity, colour and resourcefulness,” said Redress Executive Director, Anneleise Smillie. The competition, formerly […]

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In Defense Of The African Tailor

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African Tailor, Style Temple, It's Made To Order, Create With IMO
21
Feb

Tailors and (some designers) on the continent often get a bad rep. Complaints made about this group that is responsible for locally made fashion items available in African markets typically revolve around the the quality of their finished work and the on-time delivery of their work. Nigerian Tailors have a way Abeg ? pic.twitter.com/WBMZUrf1om — […]

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Other Portraits from Amy Sherald

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Amy Sherald Michelle Obama Portrait
13
Feb

Michelle Obama’s official portrait was released yesterday. For the work, Michelle Obama selected artist Amy Sherald. With her selection and the unveil of the portrait yesterday, Amy Sherald has been thrown into the public eye and has overnight become a household name. Here we present some of her previous work. The common thread across her work, […]

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EbonyLife’s “Royal Hibiscus Hotel” Premieres in Lagos

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Royal Hibiscus Hotel EbonyLife Zainab Balogun TIFF Mo Abudu Falana
13
Feb

Royal Hibiscus Hotel, the latest release from EbonyLife’s vault of movies, held its Lagos premiere on February 4th. Zainab Balogun, who has stared in a number of other EbonyLife films, plays the lead actress in the movie. Leading man is former Mr. Nigeria, Kenneth Okolie. The romantic comedy, being released in time for Valentine’s Day, […]

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Beyoncé and The Message in Her Grammys Fashion

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Beyonce Azzi and Costa Grammys 2018 Grammy Awards Clive Owens Dinner
31
Jan

Queen Bey was spotted this weekend during the festivities of the Grammy Awards in New York in 3 different outfit. Beyoncé is known as much for her style and what she dons as she is for her music and her ability to entertain.  One might even say that the two- her style and her music- […]

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Ranking of Top Fashion Schools and Free Online Courses

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04
Nov

Business of Fashion earlier this week released a ranking of top schools for a fashion education.  Find out which schools and which cities across the world are the best places to obtain a formal education in fashion. For the full list of rankings broken down by undergraduate, graduate, and fashion business programs, visit BOF here. In […]

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Lagos Fashion and Design Week ( LFDW ) Kicks Off

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LFDW
25
Oct

The festivities for Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW) kicked off this evening in Lagos, Nigeria.  The 4 day event is set to go from today, October 25th to Saturday, October 28th. In addition to the runway activities that take place in the evening of the 4 days, LFDW 2017 will also feature a Fashion […]

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Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Trailer Released

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Black Panther
25
Oct

Marvel has released the trailer for its historic Black Panther movie. Scheduled to be released in theaters in February 2018, the movie is set to feature a primarily black cast with notable names such as Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Forest Whitaker, Danai Gurira and Chadwick Boseman. What do you think of movie from what […]

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Wanuri Kahiu On Lighthearted African Stories

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Wanuri Kahiu_TED It's Made To Order
15
Sep

All stories out of Africa do not need to be heavy.  They need not be filled with accounts of conflict, poverty, or hunger to be relevant.  This, according to Kenyan filmmaker, Wanuri Kahiu, is why she writes  her “Afro bubble gum brand” of stories.  Watch her TED Talk as she discusses her work and form […]

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