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FASHION GIVEAWAY PROMOTION

Serene Fashions, Nairobi's premier online fashion shop, is having its first ever fashion giveaway. We all love giveaways, don't we? And in this case the lucky winner gets to take home a beautiful handbag of their choice worth KShs 4500/=

The rules are simple and straight forward:

Fill in your first and last names plus your email in the form provided on this link http://serenefashions.com/giveaway/
Tick “Get Alerts By Email” & “Agree to Rules”. Submit
Check your email inbox. You will receive an email alert to confirm your email address. You cannot receive future alerts if you don’t confirm your email.
You must be a Kenyan, and over 18 years to enter this sweep-stake.

After filling in your name/email, the system will give you the option of sharing this giveaway on your Facebook wall and/or Twitter page with a custom link. Each share (tracked by the system) earns you bonus entry points that increase your chance of winning.

The lucky winner will be alerted by email after 7th April 2014 when the sweep-stake ends.

We encourage all our readers to take part in this giveaway because you never know, you might just be strutting the streets with a new designer bag, or (for guys) you could surprise a loved one with it as a gift. All the best!

For more information visit http://serenefashions.com/giveaway/

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Overalls Bespoke Apparel Designer

Fullname:overalls bespoke apparel

Brand:overalls bespoke apparel

Address:10a ajanaku street ikeja, lagos

Country:Nigeria

State:Lagos

Email:overallsgroup@gmail.com

Facebook: facebook.com/overallsgroup

Website: http://overallsgroup.com/

Email: overallsgroup@gmail.com

Additional Information:

Fajinmi Olawale Adebayo

TEL:+234 8134151881 ,
TEL:+2348055927168

BB PIN :22E5026B, 286DE25A
Overalls UK
TEL:+447774869751
BB PIN: 22EC4BCC

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INTERVIEW WITH FASHION DESIGNER GloRia WavaMunno

GloRia WavaMunno is one FIERCE Designer from Kampala, Uganda. Her designs always have some sophistication and edgyness yet very fun and classy. I caught up with her to know more about her brand :

1: Who is GloRia WavaMunno?
Uhm GloRia WavaMunno is wide-eyed child seeing only beauty in her eyes and a sensitive soul questioning everything and nothing.
2: What inspired you into being a fashion designer and at what point in your life was this?

I've been inspired to be a artist since the moment i discovered my own creativity and others, which was probably childhood, then i wanted to be a painter in my teens professionally i had felt from that discovery then it was in my late teens that i focused on the transferring of painting into sketching clothing and that creative process. Once that happened clothes felt like the current destiny and i went with it.

3: How will you describe your work as a fashion designer?
Haha i believe it is ever changing, evolving pieces of work. My clothes are a honest progression of my mind, which is a changing wheel and a learning wheel. They will grow and develop with more time as studying my craft and experiencing new forms of producing clothes and discovering new textiles occurs.
4: How will you describe your style?

Hmm my style is the same as my brand, forms with my development as a person, i would say experimental and playful, depending the moment.

5: What do you enjoy most about being a fashion designer?
Being a artist, having been able to embrace that big part of me, putting all the voices and thoughts I've had since i was born in my head into something visually, physically. And it then makes sense.
6: Which part of the designing process do you consider most difficult and why?
The production is a challenge, only due to the fact i have a small production unit. This can sometimes make it difficult to get pieces/orders made to a certain timed schedule. So working on growing and improving that department.

7: What inspires those lovely designs of yours?

That's nice to say, thanks. Uhm well life, emotions, my eyes, all i come in contact with inspires my work, i am affected by what i see which i believe one must be in tune with your surroundings as you are creating to connect and have your surroundings connect with each other. I'm making clothes for people to keep living whatever life they are living. Its observation.

8: When and how was GloRia WavaMunno Clothing Label born?

I started this label in beginning 2009, I had returned home after working for Ozwald Boateng a bespoke menswear designer based in London. I mean I always believed i would have my own label once i decided fashion as a career, it just was a matter on when i was ready and it felt possible to make that jump.

9: Tell us more about GloRia WavaMunno Label?

Well i not sure what else to say, I want people to make their own minds and thoughts on what they think my label is about. I just hope the pieces people collect, I use the would 'collect' as I want my work to be like or felt as pieces of art one collects. You appreciate the quality in the work and you wear it to your own story.

10: Where do you see GloRia WavaMunno Clothing Label in the next 5 years?

I'm not a great person on foreseeing journeys, i prefer not to do it, then your blind to what's to come, more exciting. But of course i hope for development and growth, and just really tapping into parts of my mind I'm scared of and with that creating some freaking amazing things.

11: How was your experience in Nairobi when you attended FAFA?
Nairobi was great, the artistry and the artistry structure there is beautiful, i visited this centre called Kuona Trust where artists can create their work in studio space and saw a private exhibition at the Belgian ambassadors house full of Kenyan artists. The art vibe in Kenya is...amazing. And the experience i had at FAFA was so hospitable and togetherness if that is a word, and makes sense. That's what this industry and in general the art industry is about connecting and togetherness.
12: Any closing thoughts?

Thanks for the interest in my work, appreciate it. And best to your personal artistic expression. :)

Gloria Wavamunno

Artistic Director

Twitter: @GloRiaWavaMunno

Facebook: GloRiaWavaMunno

www.gloriawavamunno.com

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ETHIOPIA INTRODUCES ENZI FOOTWEAR - DESIGNER PROFILE

Via African Fashion Guide : http://www.africafashionguide.com/2012/06/ethiopia-introduces-enzi-footwear-designer-profile/

I had heard about this new African based shoe brand who use the highest available grade of Ethiopian cow, sheep and goat leather. on my network ‘radar’ and so made it part of my heaving schedule to meet up with them and get to know the minds behind the company and the aims and design innovations of this upcoming footwear label.

So with a vision to “..change the perception of Africa and develop its manufacturing capacity through the production of high quality and well designed footwear while maintaining a commitment to social and environmental responsibility”, and with their London launch looming.

image courtesy of ENZI Footwear

From Enzi : "We LOVE our logo! It is inspired by a full stop in Amharic, a language that dates back to biblical times and is also the national language of Ethiopia. The same way a period comes at the end of a complete thought or sentence, our logo is the mark of a complete creative process. It’s our mark of quality and completion. We love the logo not only because we think it looks cool, but it’s inspired by the deep and rich history of Africa."

They have a deep admiration for his transformative leadership that they can draw inspiration from in creating an African brand. They want to build a transformative brand that has a global reach.