Kenneth Ize’s name is on everyone’s lips. The Nigerian fashion designer and finalist for this year’s prestigious LVMH Prize, whose pieces have been worn by Naomi Campbell and Donald Glover, is giving a luxury finish to local artisanal aesthetics, rendering them desirable for hig…
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ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Naomi Campbell Has Big Plans For Africa
The globally-popular Naomi Campbell was in Durban, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal, for the FORBES WOMAN AFRICA 2019 Leading Women Summit, to talk about her abiding interest and investment in the African continent. As a supermodel who has scaled stratospheric heights in fashion, Naomi Campbell h…
ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Karl Lagerfeld 10.10.1933 – 19.2.2019
The world is devastated over the news of Karl Lagerfeld’s passing. A man of varied talents – artist, photographer, caricaturist, creative director and iconic fashion designer who lived in Paris. He became a revolutionary name in the fashion industry with his “high fashion and high camp” app…
Tiffany Amber Begins its 20th Anniversary Celebrations in Grand Style
The fashion season is one that never fails to usher in so much anticipation and excitement across the industry. Season after season, designers bring the best of their creativity to the runway and share their talent with the world. This season, the iconic heritage luxury brand; Tiffany Amber, ushe…
The Launch of the Commonwealth Fashion Exchange
The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange is an initiative for established and emerging fashion talent from across the Commonwealth’s 53 countries to showcase the power and potential of artisan fashion skills to deliver new networks, trade links and highlight sustainability. Daniel Hatton first thought o…
Vogue’s Fashion Magazine Empire Still Leaving Out Africa
For far too long, some fashion insiders have claimed regions of “the rest,” the huge expanse including Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa have been treated as an afterthought. Once Vogue Arabia was released, supermodel Naomi Campbell implored the company to create a Vogue Africa thro…
ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Ozwald Boateng On Africanism
Savile Row tailor and celebrated British designer Ozwald Boateng OBE writes an essay for Vogue on his new ‘Africanism’ collection and why it was so important for him to unveil it at Arise Fashion Week in April 2018. The rebirth: African luxury redefined with every stitch, a fusion of …
Afrocentrism Opens Up Diverse, Colourful, Inclusive Language of Luxury
Africans and those who have ties to the continent represent a population of almost 2 billion who will be a significant force in the luxury market in the coming decades. In a keynote at the Condé Nast International Luxury Conference on April 19, the founder of Luxury Connect Africa explained that …