Scouting for Africa
Selections have ended for 'Scouting for Africa', the event organized by Vogue Talents in collaboration with the International Business Consortium Nigeria limited, the association that runs one of the biggest model scouting agencies and owner of Ecowas Fashion week and of Africa International fashion week, in partnership with Studio 24 and sponsored by Access BankThe project, dedicated to emerging fashion designers based in Africa or of African nationality, involved hundreds of designers among which the staff at Vogue Talents selected eleven very promising profiles. One of them will have the chance to showcase his/her creations in September at the Palazzo Morando and in December at the Africa International fashion week to be held from 2 to 6 December 2015 at the new Grand Ball Hall Lekki in Lagos, Nigeria.
Waiting to see all the profiles unveiled in February and who will be the brand on which the spotlights will turn in Milan and Lagos, these are the names of the emerging designers who stood out in the scouting:
AAks, by Akosua Afriyie-Kumi, Ghana
ART/C, by Artsi Ifrach, Morocco
Laurenceairline, by Laurence Chauvin-Buthaud, Ivory Coast
Loza Maléombho, by Loza Maléombho, Ivory Coast
Maxhosa by Laduma, by Laduma Ngxokolo, South Africa
Mafrika, by Sadia Mustafa, Malawi
Monaa, by Nana and Afua Dabanka, Ghana
o ‘Milua, by Olajumoke Ademilua, Nigeria
Orange Culture, by Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Nigeria
Pichulik, by Katherine-Mary Pichulik, South Africa
Simon and Mary, by Dean Pozniak, South Africa
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