African Style Goes Global
Like Nollywood and the burgeoning music space, fashion designers are not standing still. While governments debate, pontificate and release policy papers they are ploughing on. Frankie Edozien writing in the NYTimes:
More here...Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, hosts an exciting fashion week, even though it lacks substantial government support and is bedeviled by power failures and other infrastructure challenges.
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Last March, Lagos Fashion Week provided an international platform for local talent and lured the Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng to Africa from his Saville Row outpost in London.
As the IHT’s Suzy Menkes noted recently, designers around the continent are leaping into fashion’s mainstream with quality and creativity. If harnessed properly, they have the potential to spark huge economic growth in these countries.
For continental designers to go global, they have to toot their own horns loudly and hope someone hears.
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