Style & Design

VENTURES AFRICA – With the rise of the African Fashion Industry, it is important that African designers expand their market to other African countries and international markets. It is with this aim that most online boutiques/retailers exist. Malakh & Sco is an online clothing retailer for Independent African fashion designers. The brand was started by two [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- Gavin Rajah is a South African entrepreneur, Fashion designer and business man. He is the creative force and managing director of Gavin Rajah Atelier and Gavin Rajah Concept, based in Cape Town. His passion for traditional skills and crafts is evident in his glamorous, vibrant and cutting-edge designs. Gavin is the co-founder of the prestigious Cape Town [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, known professionally just as Iman, is often referred to as Somalia’s most famous export. Born in Mogadishu in 1955, she has gone on to become a world-renowned high-fashion supermodel, and has set up her own cosmetics business and clothing line. She now boasts a net worth of $25 million. [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The prestigious ARISE magazine is set to début during Mercedez Benz Fashion Week in New York. Arise continues to stand true to its vision of highlighting African achievement through fashion, music, culture and politics. The first NYFW show in 2009 saw models like Grace Jones walk alongside models Liya Kebede, Alek Wek, Lara Stone, Tyson Beckford and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- Ghanaian-born American designer, Mimi Plange started her luxury womenswear line in 2007 under former label, Boudoir D’huitres. In 2008, she changed her label name to her own name while committing to a multicultural vision of American Sportswear influenced by world culture and the Victorian and African historical fashion. Mimi stands firm to her vision [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – After years in the wilderness a buzz is finally developing around the African Fashion Industry, and nobody has ridden this new wave of popularity more than designer Aisha Obuobi, whose design company is set to expand from Ghana into Nigeria. Having started how own design company, Christie Brown Ltd, in 2008, Obuobi [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Jacques van der Watt is the creative force behind the famous Black Coffee fashion label. He studied English and Japanese pattern-cutting techniques at Leggatts Design Academy and worked as a costume designer before launching his label Black Coffee in 1988. The brand was joined by Daniça Lepen in 2004; Jaques and Daniça have both worked hard to [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Popularly described as the “African streetchic fashion”, the New York-based label was founded in 20o9 by Loza Maléombho. Loza Maléombho New York is a women’s contemporary fashion line based in New york and producing in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The label delivers quality and culturally eclectic garments to an international fashionista. The Brazilian-born designer was [...]

VENTURES-AFRICA Popularly known for its breath-taking handcrafted accessories made of leather and mixed with African prints, O’Eclat is a Nigerian fashion and home accessories label owned by CEO Oluwagbemisola Johnson. The label was birthed because of her passion for rich African prints and leather- its smell malleability, durability, color and texture. Over the years, the Biologist has [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The amazing brand Vlisco always exceeds our expectation with every new Campaign. Since 1846, the brand has been designing and producing colourful fabrics that form an essential part of the West African culture. “The Vlisco strategy is aimed at enabling well-to-do African women to experience the brand in all her facets and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The eco-friendly fashion movement is a rapidly growing global effort to reduce environmental damage caused by the production of textiles and fashions. Eco-friendly fashion has become one of the most prominent topics in the fashion and style arena stirring the interest of consumers and participation from global high-fashion brands to local designers. Brands and designers [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Nigeria is gradually becoming a center stage for fashion lovers and experts both in the African continent and internationally. Different fashion brands have created innovative platforms for designers to showcase their designs and in the process, serve as an avenue for them to make profit, get more clients and grow. One of [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – His designs are daring, bold and dramatic. The South African, David Tlale is an international design force, creating pieces that are unpredictable and exceed expectations. He continues to show his diversity, by elaborating on his creativity, thereby producing inventive collections that are memorable and wearable.   Since his catwalk debut in 2003 which led [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In recent years, fashion blogs have definitely taken over the fashion world in a unique way. There is no doubt that, the ‘fashion blogosphere will be in the industry for a very long time. There are uncountable fashion blogs and sometimes it is hard keeping up with new ones. Fashion blogs cover [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Daughter of former South African president and statesman Zenani Mandela-Dlamini has launched a fashion label inspired by the title of Nelson Mandela’s biography, “Long Walk To Freedom”. According to Mandela-Dlamini and her children, the label will not be competing with the Mandela inspired 46664 global apparel brand which was launched in the [...]