Africa Fashion Week Joins the New York Fashion Week Calendar

Africa Fashion Week, the renowned platform curated to celebrate the continent’s most brightest design stars, is set to bring diversity to New York Fashion Week this year, announcing its fifth annual event will take place between September 4th and 6th, 2014 – a change in it original dates in July.

With a showcase that will include the likes of Weiz Dhurm Franklyn (of Nigeria), Eki Orleans (of Nigeria and Germany), Gavin Rajah (of South Africa), McMeka (of Nigeria) and Morocco Caftan New York (of Morocco) to name a few, the platform has invited some of Africa’s best talents to reveal their Spring/Summer’15 collections during NY’s mainstream event, in a bid to challenge the lack of diversity typically seen during NYFW.

Africa Fashion Week’s founder, Adiat Disu explained;

“To gain what is necessary for participating designers, we had to move the [event] to coincide with New York Fashion Week. All the participating designers are either from Africa or contributing to communities there while representing New York.” 

 

SPICE TV are proud to support the fifth annual Africa Fashion Week as official media partners, with the event promising three days of fashionable goings-on, including master classes, a pop-up market, press dinner and the highly anticipated runway show.

For more information and for the full event schedule, please visit AFW’s website here.

In the meantime, we at SPICE will be looking forward to yet another successful showcase of Africa’s most talented and to bringing you the best coverage from inside the event.

Image source: Africa Fashion Week, Seasoned Woman, Ladybrille Nigeria, Debuzz Live, South Africa Street Style.