The annual Global Change Award, initiated by the non-profit H&M Foundation, aims to protect our planet and living conditions by accelerating the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry. The five winners share a €1 million grant, along with a one-year innovation accelerator program providing tailor-made support and ...
The5kShop Here's the beginning part of the interview. Jumia, Konga, Obeezi are all competitors. Share with us on how you have been able to stand out and keep loyal customers despite their (competitors) financial strength. Our unique selling point is the VALUE we create which partially ...
Even though the western world has had a great influence on Africans, making us adopt a number of their cultures, including dressing, we still never dump those our beautiful traditional attires. In a country like Nigeria, they style their traditional attires in different ways, wear it at any time, and ...
Applications to Mettā’s first Fashion Product Lab will close at midnight on September 30th 2016 in a move that will see successful applicants receive dedicated mentorship and guidance from fashion experts to transform their ideas and commercialise concepts into high-potential businesses quickly and effectively. According to the firm, the programme aims to ...
Wardrobe has launched today in Kenya to bring the entire world of fashion—high and low—online in a move to revolutinize fashion in the country and the continent at large. Founded by Brian Busolo and Sharon Mokua, Wardrobe wants to be an Uber of fashion and is the first of its ...
Founded this year by Helen Langat and Michelle Ouma, Kenya's ModeMara.com aims to be Africa's fashion hub by bringing together talented designers from across Africa, show their unique aesthetic and also give them a market place to sell their wares and provide them with delivery and logistics support for it's member ...
Lucia Musau has always been keen on fashion, as a matter of fact, initially her firm African Elite Model was majorly organizing fashion events in Mombasa Kenya before it ventured into corporate events. According to Musau, the more the firm got into corporate events, the more she missed the fashion ...
Ella Matthew, a ladies fashion store recently launched in Lagos, Nigeria has joined the fast growing e-commerce industry and is currently functional as an online store. The move is in a quest to cater for women’s fashion needs more conveniently, efficiently and at every ones comfort with the best of ...
Rocket Internet's online shopping firm JUMIA, has today launched its first in-house brand, FTC Apparel which is already available in Morocco and will be available in other countries soon. FTC Apparel is a capsule collection of women’s shoes and will also launch with a women wear collection featuring an ...
This weekend, TechMoran caught up with South Africa's Laudable, a social shopping startup for fashion lovers launched mid this month in South Africa. Laudable brings together the best locally available products from hundreds of local e-tailers on one social platform and is essentially a social bookmarking site that not only ...
Rocket Internet announced today that it has raised a total of USD 500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access Industries since May 2012, representing the largest investment ever made in an internet incubator and accelerator company. The funds will be used to further expand Rocket Internet´s world-wide network ...
