Ghana Makes Fashion History!
The organisers of Ghana Fashion and design week (GFDW) event
are pleased to announce Vogue Italia as their international media partner for
the upcoming event scheduled for the 5th -7th October 2012 at the Moevenpick
Ambassador hotel in Accra, Ghana. The digital luxury fashion publication has
joined forces with GFDW to bring exclusive coverage of the event to the world.
This collaboration is truly one-of-a-kind – with Vogue Black
Italia high readership from all over the globe, GFDW mission is to provide
international journalistic coverage of the fashion event. Making history for
Ghana and the African continent, such collaboration has never happened before
and we hope this partnership lead GFDW commitment to the promotion of
designers, ensuring international publishers are able to easily access
official, sought after GFDW images, content and enabling designers to promote
themselves to a global audience.
Vogue Italia will exclusively be covering the runway shows,
with special backstage features and interviews. It is with great pleasure to
add Vogue Italia to GFDW list of global partners, including luxury brands such
as L’Oreal and Porsche. This partnership provides participating fashion
designers, models and sponsors with brand coverage in key markets; allowing
them to be discovered by new contacts globally.
Ghana Fashion & Design Week® is a contemporary
international platform envisioned to direct, lead and promotes both emerging
and established designers to a global audience.
GFDW brings together creatively talented fashion and
accessories designers in Ghana, and in the Diaspora alongside international
designers, to showcase their collections to local and international retail
buyers, Africa’s neo-fashion consumers, influential press, media, and fashion
savvy celebrities. The event incorporates outstanding display of fashion shows
and a creative Exhibition hub that gives fashion and creative businesses in
Ghana, and across the globe the opportunity to exhibit their collections and
related creative business services alongside the catwalk shows.
The annual event celebration of Ghana’s Fashion and Creative
business industry is set to epitomize the fashion scene in Ghana, with
platforms that celebrates Ghanaian and international designers. The
organisation is structured with an aim to develop and educate emerging talents
in Ghana through its mentoring platforms and inspirational industry seminars to
involve internationally. GFDW is strategically placed to support and strengthen
the fashion, textiles and apparel manufacturing industries in Ghana.
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