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the weather is on drugs with those limits of what i have control or when i have these pieces within sustainable pieces that comes out as doing it everywhere. so i think if you ever missed and not include up and see all of the things we have so diverse cypress, you'll see those as the you know, as they talk to them by the way, the, the, one of the world needs us, the world needs advocacy also give all these young designers a chance for because teachers sound loans and popular refunds gives them a chance to the

for a long time. the work of african design is, was absent that international fashion shows. but that's finally changing today. the creations of conquering catwalks and powers, london, and new york. fashion designers from africa all with african roots, all setting new trends with provocative and visionary walk. the major cities like lagos, cape town, and dot com, or have thriving fashion, savings the example. so when he clicks on, simply collections i meant to showcase the value of our i'm living space is,

is the people have something to say. and that being hodge more id of a and the whole world is interested in the event that i'm try now. then black creative design is taking any right now, so important because there's so much visibility around it and the signature on the state. so i understand the position that i'll hold on. i know that my fellow peers understand that position to what you do not really does it affect the way people see themselves be creates i know, particularly what's the engage to create an option for people to feed back into the community. so i think sometimes we would just diminish the call process, but it was a lot of activities in connection feasibility. the black lives matter movements brought black and businesses to the forefront,

reaching more people on more platforms. many artists around pending stereotypes and fighting misconceptions. there with that with me around the find out who will expect the work to be very transitioned and for me that is always the sort of nights ago about how to be honest with people because oh what, paul, we can't produce anything. good work that well, yes, we do have issues like any other country building, also beautiful people, what kind of february and kind of drug or gifted taking control of the narrative and showcasing for kids diversity. that's what drives some design is on the continent and doing the diaspora in european capitals, lank power result that in a sense of on the sides. one says it's simply time to hear different voices until different stories

consistent. so i think that's why this black movement is very much in the mainstream right now. this because it's time for it and plain and simple life, but it's on that side of stuff. you know, what makes fashion that's made in africa? stand out. who are the rising styles on the scene, and who's comp down to place at the tone? and what values today sham to africa is a constant in to 54 countries. 1.4000000000 people and thousands of languages. it's impossible to label its fashion seen in not really defined times the tone when talking about african fashion. we need to talk about african fashions, african styles, african trends. they are vastly different from one country to the next, as shown in the one that most integrated fashion instead of

goal is different from fashion in south africa. it's different from nigeria and fashion because the people are different just like in europe. the, there's no such thing as for confession, this passion, fine african design has both tied to experimental clothing lines are being used to rewrite narratives. they reflect the self confidence of a vibrant continent. finally, getting the recognition it deserves on the international stage that trends, incentives in africa. they're breaking with cliches and playing with traditional

dress codes, social norms, and gender roles. when i was doing that, you know, i was always told that all 5 based for very specific agenda like oh, you don't have to use a specific 5 between the 4 guys specific 5. but for women, just to verify that for the you know, all of that stuff, you know, and for me, when i was curious about, i always wanted to wear clothes that were not necessarily suited to those specific gen that felt like, oh, why contacts for the flag and who tells me that as a funds for women who sell this funds on that? i don't see any agenda. most of the senior 2011 a day, but i'll call a while launch taste brand orange culture is designs can from toxic masculinity use this platform to find for diversity and inclusion. the love about best collection. we do have like stuff on sets for men. we have like print

colors for men's, charlotte, which every mind is waiting now by the time that people were like, this is terrible. yeah, 79. and i meant, oh, because it's because they're not supposed to with this particular color and this particular i should. but for me choosing color, choosing fabric was always about questioning things and asking why, why not? why can't you, why shouldn't we? why is disability flights? it's a stereotype fun. that's how it all came about the table. all color well doesn't shy away from politics. one of his connections addressed police finance and nigeria and demonstrations against sauce. a notorious police unit. we also like to deal with the things that's sometimes in the political because of where we live . we have a collection last day that cause lots of the, you know, comes up because we're talking about the processing of the incense process and we did like a whole so you know, that have like even people like protested in the background. so, you know, around the sound and you know, if you would,

we be worried about why we're doing that and what, but i mean, i feel like as a brand, like you have to be able to confirm these things. i'm mix statements on these things fashion, but i've only got designers, is attention grabbing and not inexpensive. my african standards. finding local customers is a challenge. the young labels are especially many africans who kind of forward, exclusive labels tend to buy high end european brands or somebody that has really been that blessing. because this helps us by connect to the international market in a way that we would have never been able to do before. because you will not just give them my stuff in my hand because everyone is trying to align themselves with that. so the fords take on fashion, so i think you have to be able to open yourself up to a global created. so welding social media to their advantage. they interact constantly with the world and with each other,

the blue sink you the new way, the new york, with millions and millions of smartphones on the continent, people can document their lives and show what they are doing much more easily than before. all the just to take, i don't know how much it is you're gonna search and has always been seen as a very exclusive industry. that was hard to get into the yeah. so i can, and i think that intimidated a lot of consumers and that's and made them feel left out to normal file. uh if, what as well. so i think social networks have played a huge role in democratizing session on that demo catches that. so that i'm not really that certain media, those the the have see the way social media is helping us understand each other is essential as since. yeah, because in the past, yeah. but when some big fashion house produced something somewhere here,

it would say bangladesh on it or made in china and china. and we didn't really know what that meant for how the people there live. no, it doesn't live in buying. and maybe we didn't really care. it's, it's hard but nowadays, and it's a click away so, and you can know instantly how people live and what they're working conditions are like, i like the, the, the, there's a desire for transparency and greatest social consciousness. not just above the clouds. as much as i love, beautiful objects and beautiful things and seeing how can a sense of sincerity and honesty, the web and attend the brand dna. and that to me can only be done through human

relationships in a collective way. that's with the cost where the street, the creative vision with it's through the spot is that i'm working with with the street. the business side of things hoffman is partner solves, with human beings, fed on gifted with in whatever particular show that they do, and they to can expand and grow within the community of brand. that is the foundation for the, the fuel economy. i think the uses south african mohair and his comments and works with the traditional tech style techniques. it produces locally as much as possible, which also creates jobs locally. the key collaborates with women lead workshops and collectives in the outskirts of cape town.

was designed specifically through text altogether for memphis with these extraordinary by this woman section and to see how they can create something that stole quite tech. tall not says no, but in the modern way, but also expanding that into business and seeing how business essentially can need unsuccessful impacts. so it's not a case of just designing an object or designing a tech style. but it, seeing how can that translate into adding onto somebody's livelihood, so they can provide for their families the,

for the 1st time in his career, lucon, you think he is showing a connection at the pet, to portray fashion week in paris, the pieces hand crafted by the women from cape town while received in the wealth capital of fashion. i love knowing that that integrity is mitchie within the doctors know textiles. that a seems to be creating the young design is know the pay thing, the way for the next generation. every single decision making, it's not just me for my team. smells that understanding that as another tenure or the con you who wants to fall in the same trajectory that higher myself because i know what it's like to be that kid looking and not being able to find that person,

the cape town and johannes. but there are among south africa's fashion capitals. there are also thriving scenes in acura donna and of course, lagos, nigeria, and for a long time, the capital of cynical was considered the fashion capital of africa. the ca, fashion waste started by design of a demo party in 2002 was once the only event of its kind. now several african capitals of innovators, opportunities to showcase the creations, the, the desire for new directions. but we didn't stop that on this continent. fashion has long gone beyond the realm of commerce is traditionally being attached to coaches, rituals, and initiation, right?

the buffalo lead robbie con gloves the boundary is between our function and film. all right, so when i'm spelled to your collection, i begin by watching films i am most myself in music that inspires me a and then i write, i write a little story. and from that i develop the closing that lloyd 16 is the inspiration comes from folk called pop culture, african mythology and com, where she lives and works the i'm gonna think i'm gonna look, i did put say, sure, brand is like a collection of all the things that have inspired me since my childhood, but with the horror films of my youth during my interesting cummings and animals, i remove my love of contrasting materials and references to the intangible and

tangible heritage of dot com. log on. i drew from all those things which i could in my basic essence, is that for you all in senegal, i'm done a matuse really nice. he's a civic that is, it's a palace. she houses a studio event, location, and boutique on the one roof. it took a years to build up a study k on town that's good, don't. as i say, what makes a brand specialist that it stays true to itself regardless of what happens or this is why. and that's not easy to do because there's a lot of pressure to sell a place you on the wrong. but don't you can be tempted by what seems and incorporate that into pieces. yeah, that's perfectly normal. but don't i need your dna to the point that it becomes unrecognizable? microsoft, all the

goals, these home to 15000000 people. it's an economic comp and vibrant metropolis. people say, if you could make it here, you can make it any way bigger than one case where your life can change overnight. the designs here very bring it in, and it's highly, it's a highly competitive space. so i think everyone is best at that to bring a people with time to f, as in to you. and if you'd like to have something substantial to say the so many to verify whether to use it. if i've got a letter, does friends are more interested in finding out what's going on on a policy to find the best social media has made the conversations even louder,

unimpressive for you to ignore? what is happening on this part of the world? in a book about t. c. d style has been daniel obasi creates imaginative visual narrative. a freedom of expression is celebrated. it's not in any fashion designers who are expanding people's perceptions of africa. fashion, photographers and scientists play a critical role in bringing the sions to life the really focusing on my understanding on my interpretation, on my so real perspective. because you know, the concept of politics, you know, the concept of active design, the concept of like, you know, credit rise and the concept of like, you know, families and, and just like science or creates a space for young people or people before the minority to be able to,

to have their voice heard, or just celebrated the cities all for the plastic to reno experimentation. starters and the photographer's diminished the line between art and fashion photography that work define his definition the to the property instead of always be like, oh, issue was very generic, the and stuff. but i don't think that's the case anymore. like there's so many layers to just let it go where the people are not trying to create works to fit into twin boxes. and they just basically what that is, the distillery,

the to the story that are unique. so your black experience, you know, my experience is, uh, what is different from so many other people's experiences. and i think people just one to be seen for that, you know, for the story of the telling of their life or whatever they're going through with that. what as opposed to been, oh wow, like this by restricting you know, to tell people to always create it within from a point of view of a block on the flank on space design. kenneth is a managed to break into the international scene a few years off of launching his label phone in nigeria, he moved to austria at a young age, but late to return to his homeland. one of the most successful designers in africa,

he was nominated for the prestigious levy tom prize in 2019 i going to dallas. he was for me such a dream like come, true like he was like, haven't changed about that data that happened in my life that i didn't even leave was going to happen. and all i put a balance was to just go with a few minds. 5th periods during the time in so we will make sure you make friends and everybody they have to be friends. so that was what i did and that helped him so much the industry canada is a, is known for working with us. oh, okay. i had to open fabric traditionally warned for special occasions to use it to create clean costs and call the police trying to slim zillow and the twin other kids. you know, i myself, the main ones to is it and we're all of the houses. and like when,

so when like it's trying to like get into the room. i would change everything to like, you know, it's a good way that i'm doing now. it's like i'm going back to those memories and then the treating for me. so if that's what the case team produces, so ok, i choose textile factory in west and nigeria. now one of the largest weaving factories in the country the, the, i believe that they have a sense of identity in publishing. it's come from somewhere. is 60 language. honestly for him, i think we should start embracing what we have also from right from home. i'm chief of diabetes feeds such a value in this world of fabric to it's really changing so fast in the past 2 years

now. it's incredible and they think it's going to keep changing units the flashlights, like the way this fabrics to the weight is again. and i'm happy to see that the celebrities like naomi campbell, are among defends of his work, which we interprets and that by revitalized and was in fabrics, his creation cell and high end boutique support over the well. for me, luxury is reading anything this really anything better than me, the next person, a few less human. and i believe that the jet that we doing is an example of the fashion has always been a form of art for africans. a variety of fabrics and cloth reflect centuries old autism and traditions and are an important monica of cultural identity. but in the mid 19th century, these traditions were at risk of being wiped out because of the

kind of demoted. what is african fashion, though, just and i don't think there is such a thing. colorful. people always imagine these very colorful wax prints. but that didn't even originate in africa. and it was brought to africa through colonial structures by way of indonesia and the netherlands. hold on and a half because of con it's just one bond product of colonialism on the continent. white sprint and industrially produced products presented serious competition to traditional african tech styles. why do you need to go sit to see these fabrics became african fibers because africans war them so much . so that's how it became, the fabric of africa is to and that suppressed the true heritage of african text of the dixie. that if you go on that for a long, long time, we couldn't tell our stories the way we wanted to, especially in fashion. our countries became independent 60 years ago. colonialism

is not that far in the past or not. it's a wounds, not yet. he ok. if you look at the history of the things where the, you know, you were there before, we were told them that as they were there is like a culture was taking for months and you know, it's like last over time i now have a couple of this already existed and should still exist, like celebrate fan so they would abuse it out of the off to the colonial era and did some african fashion design is renewed and focus on traditional fabrics. one of them was chris say to who and 1972 left. molly for paris, where he worked with pat code of bond, an eve set in the home. his connections combined west and cops with traditional fabrics like vocal i'm. in the 1980s, nigerian design of a body began celebrating both the modern woman and traditional african

craftsmanship in his connections. his creations were showcased at fashion shows in paris, london, and new york lead to my design. it from kind of ruin rose to fame in the 1990 is and she continues to advocate for the preservation and recognition of traditional african textile techniques. but many of the early fashion design is from africa still unknown in the west. a bullshit them and back when i was a model, there were very talented designers, but you never saw them during fashion week. or if you did what was that's an offshore event and they weren't to run into next season. that's how it was a need. nothing ever less that big of size suv is, i mean, the body image not easy, did manage to break through

a design and living in the diaspora and working with hand crafted materials. he's brought awareness to the diversity of fashion in africa. since 1992, even though i you see, has been designing elegant and very feminine silhouettes combining sends us textiles from europe and africa, the loud on. so there are wonderful things in this package from cameron really a of the most the moment you have the fabric in your hands is very emotional that i'm going to you. because that is really the moment when you see the quality of the material, the fabricated. i'm a to you and the result of all the work that's gone into it is only take me on class. i don't

even know i used to use from kind of room he and his collection of coma or wells were included in the official parish could to canada in 2020 the only design it from sub saharan africa to be given the on it so far. the he combines italian so called french lice, with hand crafted for content styles, working with natural materials from the continents, such as tree box, full, raphael investors, and me, there's a form of luxury, but i don't want not to disappear. we can continue to develop it even modernize africa has always been an open sea turtle color forms. and elegans from the world needs africa. the one that there's one that of the

he's 2022 or could you afford winter collection was called dna, which means to be seen in the a one the language of camera room, the political foot and a new and has always had a problem. granting have forgot access to the world of luxury, the domain that we've always been the consumers of other people's luxury. so not the next it is the, the time is come for africa to take the realm of fashion under the business of fashion seriously. simply because it's not just issue. it's a show with a huge economic engine behind that because the machine you're calling me. yeah, the

supply and fashion catering for young people is booming in africa. concept shop setting africans, luxury fashion, are opening in big cities with some platforms, urging consumers to buy applicants. but guessing a foothold in the market isn't easy. we're competing on an international level or you're competing with brands that have, have industries that have been around for 300 years, 200. if there's 100, i makes the exaggerated obviously, but you get what i mean moving. they have the machinery that technology to have been able to have the education. we have the skills on your clothes at the inputs in the same store as, as brands who have done that. so we're having to compete on that level with much

less. it's like you're starting from nothing and having to create for, to provide friction. and that kind of thing. it's about pursuing that dreams. most design is a self taught from a truck because we don't have us here. we don't have design schools and people have that. so really we want to be positive or to be photographed as well to the designers to be with even push it out during of the pleasure in that dream. your pleasure. now dream by yourself to my benefits each should i get available. can i the child, i remember seeing a documentary about naomi campbell and in it she talked about her world and what she did some of the time i was maybe 7 years old and i was excited to see a black woman have that much power and such an exclusive menus and that's when i became interested in fashion is this, it comes that goes on this,

but i always knew that i wanted to tell a different story, the story of african fashion. and that's how i started doing them with us. again, it seems to come to that goes on most of the, the most african countries, there's not much support, state funded or otherwise for the fashion industry. there's little opportunity to receive formal training in the field of sophie using go see studied fashion design in new york before launching hub print to quote a label in duck on in 2012. the creation, so born in africa and the west labels is a reference point for contemporary senegalese fashion. i always knew i wanted to combine fashion with development to come. so that's how the idea of the car design hub came about when i return to sender go in 2013.

the in 2021. so phasing a c found it the 1st fashion school in west africa. the cost is covered a range of topics, including craftsmanship, digital communication, and business management. the magic, if i'm on my vision is to introduce new curriculum and teach future african designers. it would seem to know to give young people the opportunity to learn fashion, the way it's taught all over the world. i must confess it in new york or anywhere else. it took about the final amount of weight they shouldn't have to travel to another continent because they can't find a fashion school here. the most difficult enough in the school. what we want to do is create leaders. and i

think leadership is important and it's about self confidence. i think i need to be taken because then there are also technical aspects like an old fashioned, drawing, understanding, color, etc. she also said social and environmental awareness is also important. i forgot the nephew is a huge kind of design. it's part of our design philosophy to tie in all aspects of ethical and sustainable fashion, cookie track of smoking. because designers also need to be aware that this is an industry that pollutes and we must find solutions of the cans disease. and for confession design is working socially sustainable ways. they want to produce in ecological, sustainable ways to not buy them

in all kinds to come, but we don't have the same carbon footprint is 18 then it's not the same volume. the impact on the well, the smaller, in terms of closing production, there's no comparison law says about you know, the names of on zillow, it's the sort of fabrics, that's the key. all of a material creation passes. i'm very sustainable, very ethical. you know what i mean? so it's like when people attending the oh, oh, good to hear and then does the positive i'm like, do i should be teaching you this because you know, i, so africans have held this for so many years. i'm have held the possibility of an ethical process is unsustainable facts to. so i think that, you know, what honestly the, her all does of such of such a, a spend of the so it's cost when you buy something, it should last a long time. and if it doesn't, there are thousands of different ways to repair it or re purpose it and send the on . i find it very exciting that africa can actually teach us

a lot in this regard site because the idea of resorts fullness and sustainability is much more deeply rooted in the culture there. then it is here. he found a quick profile and cut this. i see the in africa and sustainable production models of being handed by an industry that slots the market with cheap tank styles for decades used clothing from around the world has been dumped till now i forget to the detriment to the local tank style economy. the 1st session, invest fashions to the, in this aspect, it's just the absolute height of consumerism and capitalism. for me, it's devoid of any value that you buy. something doesn't matter who made it or where it came from. it's only briefly in style. we wear it and the next summer we

toss it into the club in collection bins. and we know where it ends up, sidney and make what kind of man is also part of the young, african diaspora. many of whom are looking to reconnect with the roots. it was in nigeria that he got the idea of his up cycle label america. he creates the patterns in berlin and biases, pat breaks. it's the 2nd time markets in africa, facies i says, is this team a consequence of the 2nd hand textile system is that it's putting tailors out of work in the local textile industry is suffering more and more from the fact that europe stashed passion system is spilling over into africa. so let's ask because we go sure on the

beginning of these i side on that, we go to the 2nd hand tex down markets and look for fabrics that can still be used done. then we take the material to our tailoring collective snyder clinic to 1st it's wash, and then we cut the pieces according to the patterns that most then we give those to the tailors who so them together, easy done doing tonight on easy done. many of them, that's how our clothes are made and so on, sheets on. so then she's done cuz i don't the labels 1st off, assign cold collections features suits that are uni sex, comfortable and contemporary. the so i don't close carry so much meetings and we have to give them back that meeting which has been lost through fast fashion. the

confident and us out save design is in africa and the diaspora. a changing the international and fashion weld about few waste time thinking about how long the attention will last in response and moving industry. to me, people have been creating their work. people will still keep creating that what it is while i was this, did it can say is it that it wants to move it to how

we see ourselves is very important. it's like we, as i finished that in raising anything that we're on 60, fully as when a ship out there they saw. can you who it's interesting that the outlook is changing, right? when people have moved means to present that trace and stick to it seems to me the, the, it's difficult to say what is the reason as to why this so much attention. but i can't say that it is attention to wonderful. i don't think we in a position to be able to really tall actually it, the african fashion is here to stay. absolutely. no more going back to know this is it

based fashion designers embody a progress event in inventory of africa in all of its diversity. they've seized control and at that run narratives and showing the world just how many stories is bills that to be told what my says is that every design should find a way to contribute to the country that the building from. i think it's very important because at the end of the day, you have to give back your ticking from. so you have to also give back, that's the way because so that's what the,

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