Bangles by Adama Paris. Picture: Thobile Mathonsi. With the Mercedes Benz fashion week having been a few days ago, we look at some of the best accessories that came out of fashion week. Some of the hottest accessories spotted on the runway included fashion forward and dramatic colours of straw hats, bangles and bags. While … Read More →
It was Zimbabwean roots and crafts of tribe women which made Nyasha Mabhunu’s fashion collection the colourful fusion that featured at African Fashion Week London. The 23-year-old, who will graduate from Bucks New University in September, was one of more than 100 designers with connections to Africa to show their collections at Freemasons’ Hall. Nyasha said: “My … Read More →
Global members’ club for entrepreneurs Mettā has announced it will run a second cycle of its Fashion Product Lab, aimed at connecting designers with fashion-focused technology companies to launch and and scale their brands. The inaugural Fashion Product Lab was hosted by Mettā in Nairobi, Kenya, last year, with 10 designers – eight Kenyan and two … Read More →
The recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week brought to the fore a new spectacle in the fashion world. Rather than keeping it strictly commercial, a few designers defied conventions by presenting admirable avant-gardism in their shows. Runways are usually flooded with tall and slim models clad in the best of couture with their high heels strutting … Read More →
Ace designer Wendell Rodricks presented the ‘aLL PRIMERO’ collection at the plus-size show at Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2017. The presentation broke myths about plus size fashion where colour, style and fabrics were concerned with designs made to flatter men and women with great curves and ample muscles like the Apple, Pear, Hourglass, Rectangle … Read More →
The latest It bag is a bigger draw for millennials in the luxury shopping space than clothing. In the first half of 2017, full price sales of luxury handbags increased 22 percent, while scarf and hat sales rose as well, at 20 percent and 83 percent respectively, according to a report by retail analytics firm … Read More →
L to R: Karan Gujral, Ricky Gujral, Aanchal Saini, Amit Sharma Remember the scene in the Sex and the City movie where a bemused Carrie Bradshaw (aka Sarah Jessica Parker) asks her assistant-to-be (Jennifer Hudson) how she can afford a high-end designer handbag. The label-crazy assistant credits a designer bag rental service for her arm candy for … Read More →