Fashion and retail
Accra What's on
The first African cosmetics exhibition and conference to promote beauty products using shea butter and other natural ingredients.
About 1,000 visitors are expected, from cosmetic manufacturers to g...
Lagos What's on
The week is a platform both for Nigerian and also for African design and fashion.
As well as the catwalk shows there are awards, conferences, competitions, classes and a fashion business series. On...
Cape Town What's on
The annual fashion show, sponsored by Mercedes Benz and African Fashion International, for South African spring and summer collections.
The showings are for both men's and women's wear. More than 2...
Lagos What's on
After three successful Africa Fashion Weeks in London the same idea travels to Lagos for the first time to show top designers in Lagos and to promote gifted up-and-coming Nigerian talent in design, fa...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
The largest fashion event among Swahili-speaking countries.
The week was launched by the Tanzanian designer Mustafa Hassanali in 2008 to promote Made in Africa fashion, textiles and accessories....
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Fashion show in Dar promotes education
An initiative linking fashion and school launches on 12 October with a fashion show in Dar es Salaam. A street show is the first event in a fund raising effort to sponsor 100 children a year in the ci...
Accra What's on
Ghana's fashion and design week
Local and international designers meet at the Movenpick Ambassador hotel. The catwalk shows are on 11-12 Oct and there are also trade shows and fashion accessory exhibitions.
Sarah Duah (Germany),...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
The Fashion Week Zanzibar is a new initiative to celebrate fashion, created in or inspired by Zanzibar, organized in conjunction with the Zanzibar International Film Festival Week. There are a series...
Nairobi What's on
Nairobi hosts its fifth Fashion Market, in aid of breast cancer awareness, over the weekend 6-7 October.
In addition to more than 100 fashion and lifestyle stalls, there will be fashion shows and l...
Cape Town What's on
Save Our Seabirds Festival and Exhibition
8 October-20 November 2012. On occasion of the National Marine Week, the Iziko South African Museum showcases this annual festival, entitled Save Our Birds (SOS), which will run from 8 to 12 October t...
