Swahili Fashion Week 2017 highlights
Published: 25 December 2017 | by Pippa Mann
Swahili Fashion Week is the biggest and largest annual fashion event in the whole of East and Central Africa providing platform for fashion and accessory designers from Swahili speaking countries and beyond to showcase their talent, market their creativity and network with clientele and the international fashion industry.
This is all aimed at emphasising to the region that fashion is an income generating creative industry, meanwhile promoting a Made in Africa concept. Swahili Fashion Week is a platform founded and created by celebrated Pan African couturier from Tanzania, Mustafa Hassanali in year 2008.
Fashion Week aims to:
Promote Eastern African fashion brands.
Improve the quality and output of fashion design from East Africa
Provide a platform for up and coming young designers in the region
Create opportunities for East African products in African Diaspora markets
ZARGUE' SIA (ZIMBABWE)
MKWANDULE' SON
JAMILLA VERA SWAI
SAMZ SAMUEL ZEBEDAYO
MIIZU (MALAWI)
HOUSE OF PRISAR
- www.swahilifashionweek.com