The team talks exclusively to Kweku Ansah, the Founder Creative Director for CANOE magazine, to unpack the status of fashion media in Africa today and where its future lies.
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The Threaded Man takes over #TheThreadedExchange to chat to Visual Storyteller, Lulama Wolf. They discuss her growing success as a style influencer - particularly about where and how she started, what sets her apart, her aspirations and her recent work and recognition globally. She spills the details on her trip to Paris Fashion Week and what it takes to own your space.
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The team talks exclusively to AfroStyle magazine (ASM), an African-inspired, multicultural/multiracial online magazine that covers contemporary issues in fashion, entertainment, arts/culture and social issues. ASM speaks of value, expresses beauty, comments on attitude and identifies substantive style. With the team in studio are ASM partners Amaka Onyia, CEO/Editor-in-Chief of ASM, a Nigerian who appreciates the beauty of African and non-African cultures. Fashion Editor and partner at ASM, Khanyi Shabalala is South African, with a knack for creativity and an incredible artistic flair and vision, which she shares abundantly in her video/photography collaboration with Amaka, 'Being Khanyi’.
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The team is joined by 'Sid' Khurrum Hasan, CEO of a new revolutionary fashion app called MeSpoke. Plus insights from Eji Benson and Francesca Marzilli.
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The team talks everything around fashion from a Social Commerce/E-Commerce angle. They are joined by special guests Christopher Augustine and the rest of the FYI Online team... along with their brand new European contributor, Francesca Marzilli - plus US - Fashion Lab Partner and contributor on the show, Eji Benson.
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The team engages with fashion lovers across the continent from the East, West, Central, North and South Africa. They are picking the general consumers' minds around their relationships with fashion and how they perceive style.
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The team talks fashion and fitness... they are joined by fitness junkie and gym owner Rene Roberts-Patel and founder of a South African activewear brand, Nothulako Maseko.
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Driven by the recent South African Fashion Weeks, The Threaded Man team discusses the state of South African Fashion and where it should be going.
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The team discusses the African fashion consumer in Africa. Who is this consumer? What do they want? Do they have access to what they want? What are they willing to spend to get what they want? Are the retail hubs offering what they want? Boutique owner of 'Designer Studio' in Nairobi, Kenya Wanjiku Nyoike, and Kenyan trend spotter Sharon Olago, are in studio to discuss... along with insights from other fashion consumers and entrepreneurs from across the continent.
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SA Fashion Week 2017 took place last week and in studio to chat to the team is Founder and CEO of SAFW, Lucilla Booyzen. Joining the conversation is De Mil and Rubicon, two of the designers who showcased at this year's SAFW.
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