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African Fashion Photography Exhibition If you are into fashion designs, Accessories, bloggers, fabrics, magazines, online, brands, makeup Artists and Photography. African fashion exhibition is the avenue to sell and promote your brand into different platform Hurry now and get your forms at: Friends Club, Silverbird galleria Silverbird Cinema, Victoria Island and Ikeja Ozone cinema, Yaba Genesis deluxe, Lekki The exhibition fair  holds on Saturday 7th February, 2014. For sponsorship& advert booking call: 08189538165. Official Media Sponsor: MUSIC AFRICA, SILVERBIRD TV, RHYTHMFM, & SILVERBIRD CINEMA  Media Partner:SOUNDCITY, HIPTV, NTA,TVC, ONTV,LIVE BEAT,BEATFM,COOLFM,WAZOBIAFM,CLASSICFM,NAIJAFM,LINDA IKEJI&BELLA NAIJA,OZONE CINEMA,GENESIS DELUXE . This Events Is Brought To You by: Friends Club and Occasions&Events Powered By: Mattson Photography

Friday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. Wollman Hall (65 W 11th St - enter at 66 W 12th) Reception to follow The event is free and open to the public. To celebrate the publication of the new issue of Fashion Projects the MA Fashion Studies at Parsons the New School for Design will be hosting a screening, featuring a range of short experimental films about fashion and memory–the topic of the new issue. They include films by the British-based fashion design duo Boudicca, Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, designer Shelley Fox, and fashion photographer Laura Sciacovelli.

LE PETIT MARCHE – APRIL PRESS RELEASE ‘A piece of the famous London Portobello Market in Lagos’ It’s almost that time of the month again so we would like to invite potential vendors to come and participate in what is going to be an UTTERLY FAB LPM this month….and of course subsequently. Lagos’ favourite fashion + lifestyle market is back with a BANG this month, we’ve moved house to the uber-fab GET Arena, Lekki! To celebrate we are giving our shoppers an opportunity to kart and shop!!! We’ll be giving away prizes to the fastest male and female kart-ers! Fashion . From independent to high street, hottest trends to vintage; men, women and children will be catered for. Experience . GET ARENA on the 25th of April 2010 from 12 noon till 6pm. – GET offers you all a combo of the BAR n GRILL, The G Lounge, GOONIES kids, surrounded by one of the most sophisticated GO Karting tracks you will find anywhere!! With an excellent menu, awesome cocktails and great music, who says shopping can’t b...

To coincide with the programme CCA,Lagos will be hosting a three day workshop on fashion and photography, in which artist Pinar Yolacan will guide participants in conceiving and realizing work(s) that will go on to be exhibited within the CCA,Lagos library space as part of our Fashion, Art and Identity series. The workshop will take place from the 21st- 23rd April 2010, for more information please contact Oyinda Fakeye at info@ccalagos.org or on 07055680104, spaces are limited.

I've been here barely two day but I have had the opportunity to socialise with artists from the field of fashion, photography, installation and film (to name a few). The project I am here to do is a Fashion and Art workshop, which will take place over the next 7 days. My first task here was to deliver a presentation on African Fashion, which I almost fell off my seat at hearing. After much deliberation I decided it was too broad a topic and narrowed it down to my area of interest 'Body Image Satisfaction' and 'Identity', I used myself as a case study cause I'm just that vain, lol. Actually it relates a lot to the issues I faced when moving Nigeria, where my challenge was retaining who I was, while in Lagos, something I had struggled to do on previous occassions. If you know anything about Nigeria you will know that fashion is a very important part of almost every womans life, its not a hobby but a life style. The obsession with brand and elitism are more rife t...

I have spent the better half of this week supervising a Video Art Workshop here in Lagos and its been really exciting working with artist from around Nigeria who work in a broad range of arts, from sound art to photography, poetry to performance. Most of the artists were experiencing Video Art for the first time and now they are really running with it! See http://artspeakafrica.blogspot.com/ for more info. The workshop has been run by members of theoneminutes organisation, who work with video art that lasts only a minute, see www.theoneminutes.org, also see my residencies section for their current open call. Watching the artist work made me a little jealous as I would love to produce my own piece (when you work in arts admin you sometimes wonder whether or not you should be producing work)! I had a lot of encouragement from the lead artists and the participants who pushed me to come up with a concept. Having worked in both poetry and fashion I gravitated to these two areas of intere...

Original article can be found: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2162846/Italian-Vogue-shows-black-models-only.html Italian Vogue has used only black models for the July issue of the magazine, in a statement against discrimination in the fashion world. More than 100 pages of the issue, including the cover, will feature images of black women taken by the acclaimed New York based photographer Steven Meisel. The pictures will be accompanied by articles on successful black women in arts and entertainment. The move is in reaction to recent anger over the reluctance of fashion magazines to feature black models on their covers. Many industry insiders claim black girls are not used because they just "do not sell". Leading black figures, including models, designers and agents, have now formed a protest group in New York to highlight the problem of racism in the industry. Italian Vogue's editor, Franca Sozzani, said her decision was influenced by the New York g...