2019 Edition – London, UK
THEME: Shift Your Supply
Africa. Fashion’s Return – Sept 9th – City Hall, London
with 1 day LIVE Masterclass – Sept 10th – The Crystal, London
9am-6pm
Our Scope:
This season we will be discussing Shifting the Supply chain of the fashion industry to Africa, the opportunities on the continent is growing and more production and movements are being executed in Africa. We will look at the growing interest is in the continent as a market of its own as Fashion Returns to Africa!
We will continue to join together to share and investigate the growth of the African retail stratosphere, e-commerce, the consumer market and why you should be an early adopter, the actual African market formal versus the informal markets, the culture of African consumers and style, tailor relationship versus fast fashion, the young population and the move from the rural to the city areas, African Fashion Manufacturing, Ethiopia as a hot topic for manufacturing, the secondhand clothing industry, the media industry and the present image of Africa in the press, trends in African fashion on and off the continent and link all these to movements in technology, agriculture, sustainability, communication and more.
Our Strategy:
The seminar event will act as a means to discuss and promote the full supply chain of African Fashion Design, Textiles, and Manufacturing and thus communicate this to a larger, global audience through media.
The event will be centred around the areas of these sub-topics Shift to Sustainability, Shift in Manufacturing, Shift for Retail, Shift in Trends, Shift your Supply, Shift to Innovation, Shifting Disruption, Shift in Trading Policy, Shift of Finance, Shift in Design looking at Cultural Appropriation, IP and more.
Our Social Aims and Objectives:
‘Fashion Africa’ Conference and Seminars were created to be a catalyst in the industry to help change perceptions of the fashion and textile industry in Africa and to ask those in Africa working in garment design and textile manufacturing what THEY think and need and so aim to keep these discussions ongoing in different locations annually where international industry leaders can connect, do business and initiate change.
The 2019 Fashion Africa Conference will act as a revolutionary vehicle to create a social forum for all those attending to talk openly and share ideas, information and expertise, to raise awareness and elevate the perception of design from the African continent.
Our Solution:
This event is a must attend event where there will be a mix of press, brands and industry influencers and insiders with a mutual involvement and/or vested interest in elevating African trade, design and production, and who want to be part of the wider solution to raise Africa as a trailblazer in quality design and production.
