For the last 160 years in the Netherlands, Vlisco has dedicated itself to creating highly desired textiles that have become part of the vibrant culture of West and Central Africa. Vlisco Wax Hollandaise has become a phenomenon in its own right. These imported product designs have consistently surprised and inspired their passionate and critical audience, through the generations. Vliscos craftsmanship is second to none, both in look and in quality. From the beginning, Vlisco has created exciting and expressive textiles, which never use cliché African imagery. This has ensured that Vlisco has no equal in this market.
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Passionate about art and design, Hinda was born in Tunisia from Sudanese parents and raised in France. She obtained an Art degree From the Ecole des Beaux Arts. She decided however to concentrate on the fashion design and thus enrolled at ESMODE (A French fashion school) to study fashion style. In 2001, she moved to Montreal where she studied Fashion design and obtained her diploma from the Academy of Design and Technology of Montréal.
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Mrs. Sue Muraya launched the Kenya Fashion Week in 2001. The initiative promotes and stimulates business for designers, manufacturers and the Kenya Fashion Week Industry. The first event targeted qualified designers with the introduction of a new category, the Students Fashion Awards in 2003.
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It all started with an obsession with colour, a mother who owned a whole lot of Sewing & Knitting machines & numerous trips to the fabric market stalls! As a little girl Skye Roseline T Chirape admits to being obsessed with clothes and making up her own outfits. Skye also confesses to being prompted into making the transition from being Stylish into Designing clothes by a friend (Tony Stevens) who encouraged her into buying her first Sewing machine! Born & raised in Zimbabwe, Skye now a London based fashion designer, Stylist & Writer earned her degree in psychology but her love of colour, fabrics & fashion is turning into a thriving passion for fashion designing. Skyes designs come alive through her signature use of paints & colourful fabrics. Skyes greatest inspiration comes from Vivienne Westwood, Gwen Stefani, John Galliano, Matthew Williamson, Jean Paul Gautier & Vintage clothing items.
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Artista nascida em Korka - Senegal , com uma criatividade para a moda. Estilista de moda e acessórios. Em seu atelier, Korka, ela desenha sapatos, bolsas , cintos e bijuteria. Inspirada nas culturas tradicionais da África e Oriente e também Ocidentais. Seus produtos são refinados, elegantes e muito originais. Para isso utiliza uma variedade de materiais e de côres que imprimem sua marca e boa reputação. Suas peças estão expostas e vendidas nos diferentes hoteis de Dakar e do Sally Portudal, na costa balneária senegaleza. Korka também comercializa seus produtos na França na Côte D´Azur e na Italia, onde o design Korka é representado por sua filha Amina Diakhaté.
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Stella Mercy Atal was born in Northern Uganda around the shores of Lake Kyoga on Labour Day and she has been described as a very hard working and innovative person. She grew up in Kampala and started painting as a young child.
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Farouque is a designer with many years experience in the international world of fashion. Now based in Zanzibar and London, his work is wonderfully refreshing and inventive, weaving the fabric and culture of Africa into a form that makes your skin feel like it's been kissed by the African experience. Tropical yet universal, his design encompasses the pure and the eclectic.
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Aisha Obuobi is a Ghanaian couture designer, a final year psychology student of the University of Ghana. She uses ordinary Batik garments to create stunning couture outfits! she showcased her new collection back in March 2008 in Accra. The Dutch wax dresses of the 'Chistie Brown' label are designed by Aisha Obuobi. Why the name Christie Brown? That's Aisha's grandmother's name. She grew up watching her grandmother sew. Deep down in her, Aisha has always known designing clothes lay in her future.
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Née à San Pédro en Côte dIvoire ou à lâge de douze ans elle fait ses premiers pas chez ELDA Super Confection - Académie de Coupe & Couture. Elle poursuit sa formation dans la couture en entrant au Collège de Notre Dame des Deux-Plateaux à Abidjan ou elle apprend les bases du métier. Après quelques années de travail, Elle senvole ensuite pour Paris pour reprendre le chemin de la formation à FORMAMODE. Par la suite elle décidera de créer une marque représentative de sa vision de la mode féminine : NK Style. Le style de NK se remarque avant tout par la rigueur et la technique de coupe ainsi que son exigence dans le travail de finition.
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My name is Nela, a Mozambican girl with a fresh and innovative vision of fashion for Africa. One of the richness of my homeland is the cultural diversity: were Bantu, were Arabic, were Punjabi, were European. Mozambique is main source of inspiration, the land where drams become real and everyday the Indian Ocean marries the Sun. Please, check this site and feel Mozambique!! .
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Noir et chic Imane Ayissi puise son inspiration dans le continent noir précolonial pour crééer une mode du monde qui dépasse la seule étiquette ethnique. Il travaille le tissu d'une manière soft et épurée pour révéler une harmonie et magnifier la femme par une élégance qui est le maître-mot de ce créateur. Chic, distinction et un brin d'aristocratie caractérisent le porté de ses robes. Respect inné de la femme aussi, chez ce styliste qui dévoile sans mettre à nu, suggère une chair plus qu'il ne la montre, et use d'une impertinence de bon augure pour couronner la faculté de séduction de celles qu'il habille.
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Allys fashion talents are like the unique Tanzanian art of Makonde carvings. His creations are a blend of wearable garments which are in the true sense a combination cultures, styles and fabrics. Ally is a Tanzanian, born and raised within Indian ethnicity. The opportunity to go to the west to obtain his degree made him knowledgeable of all three different parts of the world, thus the ability to create designs with inspiration from all the cultures.
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At Riela Clothing we specialize in making womens clothing with a flare for ethnic fabrics and a passion forcontempary styles and designs. Riela brings you the blending of two continents: Europe & Africa. We make made-to-measure clothes to order as well as selling online. We use high quality and tested fabrics to ensure our products durability. Our clothes and products are tailor-made to measure, using African prints supplied by manufacturers based both in Africa and Europe. Our fabrics range from Batik, Adire, English & Hollandaise wax & Java prints, linen and Fairtrade cotton fabrics. Our mission is to make clothes that fits the individual customer taking into account their personal styles coupled with customer satisfaction.
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Every Karishma collection is inspired by both the earthly, essential woman and the ethereal goddess who has inspired throughout the ages. As other artists paid tribute to woman with paint and chisel, so too does Karishmas design team, through the draping of each piece. The Karishma collection is designed to celebrate women as the embodiment of strength and elegance. The Karishma woman possesses both, and the collection reflects this passion. The Karishma woman is one who segues with confidence from cocktails, to conference room, and seeks to do so with sophistication, every time. Enhancing the absolute perfection of the inner being, Karishma is for the soul.
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From 1995 when he started out as model, 1990 as a modeling agent, 1996/1997 as a trained cut and sew tailor from NOBEL AFRIK Training Institute, Mr. Bayo Adegbe his consistently working within the fashion/modeling industry as model/make-up artist, model instructor, fashion show choreographer, stylist, model manager and couture maker with a difference in designing high fashion/couture/costume panache, luxury and occasionally. His inspiration for his collection is major from Nature (birds, butterflies, plants and animals in general), fabrics arts and crafts of Africa especially Nigeria, day to day interaction with people from different works of life, occasion, and ethnic markets all over Africa.
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WAS A THOUGHT INSPIRED BY THE LIKES OF I, OLU-SEGUN OYE-FESOBI. IT WAS A THOUGHT IN WHICH MY CREATIVITY AND PASSION FOR FASHION INSPIRED ME TO CREATE A VIBE OF MY OWN. I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY ARTISTIC ABILITY IN A PHYSICAL FORM THAT WILL ALLOW ME TO EXPAND AND EXPLORE MY SENSE OF ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL AND A NEW GENERATION...IN WHICH LED ME TO THE BIRTH OF MY PERSONAL INDEPENDENT APPAREL LINE, OLU OYE.
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Personal Details Name: Lucia de Fátima Nhancume Pinto Nationality: Mozambican Date of Birth: 05/11/1955 Gender: female Work Experience 2006 - Parade for faces vodacom Exposition at centro de conferências Joaquim Chissano Main activities Clothes sailing for visitors to the conference Parade at Coconuts Main activities Launching of summer cloths Parade at Jardim dos namorados Allusive the 9th congress of Frelimo
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Personal Details Surname: Timba Names: Ângela Maria Margarida Duarte Nationality: Mozambican Date of Birth: 29/06/71
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Name: Isilda da conceição Ginote Mbaga Date of Birth : 28 / 04/ 1981 Artistic Name : Ìsis
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Sylvia Owori is one of today's leading figures in East Africa's media, modelling, advertisement and fashion industries, famous for both her entrepreneurial skills as well as for her creative talent. Today, her designs are appreciated by a very large public in Uganda and her participation in a variety of prestigious events all over Africa have worked to make her a respected designer throughout the continent. Sylvia's contribution towards Uganda's development was recently recognised by President Museveni himself, when in June 2006 she received the Presidential Transformers Award.
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Ugandan fashion house that makes clothes for the entire family as well as soft furnishings. We make both African and Western style clothes for all kinds of functions. We also make soft furnishings like cushion covers, curtains, table mats, wall hangings and other unique pieces to enhance the look of your home. We are located in Ntinda and are available on appointment. Simply dial the number above to set up an appointment.
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