#fashion africa
Feeling sensitive towards selling or even using social media during this season?
I totally get you! And this is why I shared some valuable tips with my facebook group this week and now with you my mailing list for this weeks Youtube video see below.
Ok so, real talk … a lot of us entrepreneurs and small business are doing business right now and this means we are still selling and promoting. Many…
SOURCE NIGERIA – Fashion Made in Nigeria – A five-week guide
NIGERIA – THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE
I have mentioned on many occasions that there are three major questions that I get asked all the time and why I started my business. But let me share the two major questions I get asked repeatedly as an African Fashion Business Coach. They are
Which country should I set up my fashion business?
AND Where can I source XYZ in Africa?And this is why I am doing a…
Want My African Supplier contact list? The Reason WHY I do NOT give this out
Firstly… let me talk fashion.
Fashion is a very competitive industry and African fashion being a niche where a lot of people hang out makes it uber competitive.
The competition can come across quite daunting but I want to encourage you to overlook those who see you as competition and instead seek those to collaborate with.
Rihanna with @Puma
Think @hm and their…
theFAMILY – Rebuilding African Communities by Building African Businesses
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End of 2019 in our membership club The F.A.Mily we had our weekly session (happens every Wednesday) I tasked everyone to send to me their plan for their business for he next 6 months. Can you believe Saturday marks the beginning of february already! So i had the members planning ahead and reviewed these goals and we check back in over the next 6 months.
After the meeting…
That’s Right…The Fashion Gurus are Dead Wrong!
So many gurus say it is impossible to source textiles in Africa, that you cannot make quality fashion there, that its unreliable and people only want to rip you off.
NOW with the influx of people travelling to Africa last year and getting “inspired” and seeing “opportunity”… YES you can open up yourself to opportunists and why I do encourage you to travel to Africa with us on our Fashion Africa…
How the death of my Jamaican Grandfather started my business in Africa
All this talk about new decade and I totally speak that too but when I look back at this time last decade it was a completely different story.
I had just started my MA Ethical Fashion degree and was researching into African cotton.
My Grandfather who was a Maroon recently died and I went to Jamaica for his funeral.
The Maroons were a kickass warrior tribe in Jamaica of enslaved Africans brought…
SNEAK PEEK OF THE INSIDE OF A WAXPRINT HOUSE!
SNEAK PEEK OF THE INSIDE OF A WAXPRINT HOUSE!
Always wondered what it is like actually INSIDE a waxprint african print printhouse IN Africa! Then watch this video here ≥≥ https://youtu.be/vZjNYGD–0c
The full video over on my YouTube channel highlights companies we have visited and work with in our # Sourcing Agency theF.A.T.E. of our company, Africa Fashion Guide Ltd see @fashionafricatradeexpo
New sourcing website launched 2021!
If you are…
“The best decision ever!” – FASHION AFRICA VOICES
“I quit my corporate job for African fashion”and “The best decision ever!” In this weeks Fashion Africa Voices series we look at the story of Toronto based Designer Catherine Addai of the print infused brand Kaela Kay, who went against the odds to leave her well paid corporate job to pursue her vision and literally to SET UP SHOP for her AFRICAN PRINT FASHION BUSINESS. She went on to share the…
How one Tweet connected me to a Hollywood Actress
Did I ever tell you the story of how Actress Rosario Dawson and her business partner spoke at one of my Fashion Africa Conferences I host annually in London? We initially connected on twitter– a platform where i have over 14000 followers She had liked commented on my tweet I responded back and sent a DM I requested to interview her regarding her relatively new business Studio One Eighty Nine…
