Ladybrille African Fashion News #51

A weekly collection or thereabouts of fashion news relating to/about Africa. The BIG news is the first ever Swahili Fashion Week! That ought to be interesting. . . They have the well established Tanzanian fashion designer, Mustafa Hassanali, at the helm of the event and South Africa's Jan Malan helping with production and choreography of models. Some designers that will be showing is Tanzania's famous Ally Rehmtullah and South Africa's Thula Sindi. With the look of things and names involved, we trust things will go rather smoothly! http://www.swahilifashionweek.com/

1. Swahili Fashion Week for Dar
2. Barack Obama and Sarah Palin inspire international fashion designers
3. Ramogapi scoops Redds country finals
4. Photostory: L'Uomo Vogue's Africa issue
5. Djimon & Kimora at STK + News
6. Britain’s most influential black people published in The Power ...
7. 2008 African International Modeling Competition & Fashion Expo
8. NIGERIA: “I am moved by the isolation and poverty of the elderly”
9. 29th November 2008/kouture-afrika Fashion Show/ London ...
10. "Design Without End: Essential Art of African Textiles" at The Met
11. Designer Interview - Annabella
12. Tatsuro Horikawa Fashion
13. Africa Weekly: Boost For Botswana’s Diamond Sector, Coal of Africa ...