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    Here Are The 14 Designers Selected For The First-Ever African Fashion Futures Incubator

    by Editor January 26, 2023
    The African Fashion Futures Incubator, initiated by the ​​Impact Fund For African Creatives (IFFAC) in collaboration with the African Fashion Foundation in Ghana and Seedstars, an implementing partner, is gearing up for its first run.

    The partners have announced their first cohort of 14 African fashion designers to join the African Fashion Futures Incubator. The selected designers joining the program will receive grant financing and training and the incubator looks to equip new, up-and-coming fashion start-ups with the necessary skills and resources to create brands founded on ethical principles regarding people, place, and profit.

    According to the Project Director of the African Fashion Foundation, Onyinye Fafi Obi,

    “The incubator aims to encourage peer learning and cultural exchange among its participants as well as to future-proof them and instill excellent operational and business foundations to ensure growth. The program also seeks to produce sustainable and financially viable enterprises. while honing the business capabilities of fashion designers.”

    Onyinye Fafi Obi

    Check out the first cohort of 14 selected African fashion designers to join the incubator.

    AJABENG

    Travis Obeng-Casper is a fashion designer and Creative Director of AJABENG, a Ghanaian unisex brand birthed at the intersection of minimalism and contemporary African art and culture. He started his fashion brand in 2018 while still in fashion school. Travis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design from Radford University.

    1O Haute Looks from Ajabeng’s Ghana Awake Collection.

    Abiola Olusola

    Abiola Adeniran-Olusola is a Nigerian fashion designer born in Ibadan. She launched her own contemporary women’s fashion house with a distinct fusion of structural cuts, sleek architecture, African cultures, and craftsmanship in 2017. Abiola draws inspiration from films, music, nature, vintage photographs, and African mythology. She graduated from the University of Lagos in 2010 and then from Istituto Marangoni, Paris, in 2015 where she studied fashion design. While at Marangoni, she interned at Givenchy and Lanvin.

    Cynthia Abila

    Cynthia Otiyo – Abila started the Cynthia Abila fashion brand in 2016. The women’s brand seeks to make apparel for all shapes and sizes and to celebrate womanhood, culture, and sustainable craft. Each Cynthia Abila design tells an African story.

    Jermaine Bleu

    Jason Jermaine Asiedu is the founder of Jermaine Bleu which was founded in 2015, the fashion brand is a unisex ready-to-wear brand that embodies style and quality made in Ghana garments. Each piece by Jermaine Bleu tells the African story through bold colors, unique patterns, and more.

    Pepper Row

    Pepper Row was founded in 2018 by Omafume Niemogha in Lagos, Nigeria. The Sustainable fashion brand is all about using fashion as a positive tool for social and environmental change, whilst exploring, promoting, and preserving the culture and age-old traditional craftsmanship of hand weaving and dying textiles, wood carving, and hand painting. Pepper Row is well known for creating bold, unique, and colorful pieces of arrays.

    Anku

    Kelvin Vincent is a fashion designer at Anku studios and is an internationally published fashion stylist. The Ghanaian fashion brand is a sustainable conscious brand that uses local hand dye to manipulate materials. They create artistically wearable and colorful pieces by drawing inspiration from nature. Kelvin not only has good eyes for putting clothes and accessories together but also has a unique eye for detailing, significant industry experience, design, and creative direction.

    Oríré

    Oríré is a Nigerian contemporary fashion brand based in Lagos which is owned by Orire Aleshinloye. The fashion brand is committed to exploring artistic femininity through distinct artisanal craftsmanship and conscious production. Aleshinloye holds a Master’s in Fashion Business Creation from The British School of Fashion in London.

    PALMWINE IceCREAM

    Kusi Kubi is the creative director of the fashion brand PALMWINE Ice CREAM based in Accra, Ghana. The fashion brand is a gender-skewed Ghanaian fashion label that is big on sustainability. The brand incorporates cut-out tailoring, patched-together leather pants, asymmetric tops, and pelmet skirts. Signature flourishes of gold are seen throughout the brand’s line-up, in chainmail tops or eyelets hammered into hems. Kubi’s journey in the fashion industry began in a central London hotel soirée where he met his first mentor (fashion director, at Plastique)

    TABOU

    Formerly called DIA by Sarah Elizabeth, Nadia Eman Ibrahim decided to rebrand from a bespoke brand to a sustainable ready-to-wear brand. Tabou is all about sustainability, from creating designs that have little to zero waste to using second-hand fabrics and clothes to create new designs. The fashion brand is well known for its playful and comfortable ready-to-wear party and resort wear.

    VicNate

    Victor Anate is a young Nigerian fashion designer who currently designs and manages the contemporary fashion brand vicnate. VicNate celebrates youth and femininity in a way that bridges the gap between luxury and contemporary fashion. The brand is known for its classical details like the whimsical bows, décolletage, and structured easiness that are all explored in exciting jewel tones and black.

    Amike

    Aline Mukamusoni is an actress, creative writer, fashion designer, and founder of AM!KE. AM!KE is a Rwanda-based fashion brand focusing on handcrafted accessories and garments. The production process specializes in handcraft techniques from different African cultures, aesthetics and notable figures from ancient Africa, and tales from the continent, especially Rwanda. The brand draws inspiration from poetry, nature, and culture. Aline’s mission is to use her art to inspire, employ, and uplift Rwandan women of all ages.

    Maliko

    Ebuka Omaliko is the Founder and Creative Director behind the artisanal luxury footwear & accessory brand Maliko. His fashion journey began in 2012 as an intern at the Lagos Fashion Week which ignited a strong interest in fashion and paved the way for the vision of the brand Maliko. Ebuka won the 2018 Green Access Competition of the Lagos Fashion Week and was selected as a beneficiary of the 2021 Young Designers Sustainable Project by the African Fashion Foundation. He draws inspiration from childhood memories, interactions with people, history, and culture.

    Atto Tetteh

    Atto Tetteh was founded in 2014 by George Tetteh. The Ghanaian luxury fashion brand is known globally for its visual expression of African stories through sophisticated and trendy clothes with color, warmth, energy, and sartorial elegance as their description of fashion sense, ATTO TETTEH believes Africa has a story yet to be told.

    Larry Jay

    Larry Jay by Jafaru Larry is a unisex Ghanaian brand that has a unique and timeless personality and lives in a clean, diverse, and progressive world. Their designs exude an understated style and emphasize “tradition and comfort” with details and innovations that echo our west African heritage.

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    Thelma Quainoo is my name, and my pen name is Miss Anowaa. My zodiac sign is Aries, and that alone will tell you I am a bubbly soul. A writer and an aspiring public relations practitioner. Find me on IG as @miss_anowaa. #beyouloveyou

    January 26, 2023
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    Tecno Mobile Ghana Partners Ghana Menswear Week 2022

    by Editor July 29, 2022
    July 29, 2022

    Ghana Menswear Week (GHMW), the only men’s fashion showcase in the country, is set to hold its 6th edition from…

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    Boyedoe’s New Collection ‘The Great Escape’

    by melange July 22, 2021
    July 22, 2021

    Ghanaian Fashion brand Boyedoe recently launched its latest collection 2021 Resort called the ‘The Great Escape’ Shot at one of…

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    Afrodesiac Worldwide Launches SS21 Collection; CHIKARA

    by melange April 22, 2021
    April 22, 2021

    Made in Africa, bred in Brooklyn cultural clothing label, Afrodesiac Worldwide has released its SS21 Collection; ‘Chikara’, a Japanese word…

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    IWD2021: Celebrating 10 Women In Ghana’s Fashion Industry

    by melange March 9, 2021
    March 9, 2021

    Women are showing up, stepping up, and taking what they deserve. From politics to pop culture, women aren’t just leveling…

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    Iconic Designs Of Kofi Ansah And Other African Fashion Giants To Be Celebrated By Victoria And Albert Museum

    by sweetadmin February 20, 2021
    February 20, 2021

    The work of Kofi Ansah, god-father of Ghana’s fashion landscape, has been selected together with three other pacesetters on the…

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    GTP Wear Ghana Fashion Festival Goes Virtual

    by sweetadmin February 20, 2021
    February 20, 2021

    After two successful years as the main sponsor of the Wear Ghana Fashion Festival, Ghana’s textile giant, GTP once again…

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    A Style Guide on Hat Fashion

    by sweetadmin February 11, 2021
    February 11, 2021

    Hats has for many centuries been status symbols and fashion statements; representing authority and power.   Early pictorial depictions first…

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    Paón Outdoors New Collection To Pay Homage To His Mother

    by sweetadmin February 10, 2021
    February 10, 2021

    It is a given that obsession fuels designers’ creativity. Inspired by his mother, Collins Obeng-Marnu, Creative Director of House of…

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    Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas For Your Loved Ones

    by sweetadmin February 9, 2021
    February 9, 2021

    Valentine’s day is right around the corner and we all know gifts are beautiful ways to express your love to…

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