Africa Fashion Law

Shout out to all the copycat fashion designers, that duplicate other designers design  and then rock them on the runway, I have a simple advice "Be Original". The art of fashion designing is all about originality. There are quite a few fashion designers in Africa that have original designs, designers like; Ejiro Amos Tafiri, Deola Sagoe, Nana K.Brenu, David Tlale and so on. In fashion,  the same colours and styles are applied by most designers, what can make a design unique can be tricky. I am an upcoming designer and sometimes I get my inspiration from other designers' design. It is not a crime to get inspiration from other designers work but it is a crime to make a replica of a designer's work, then call it your own. It takes a lot of effort to create an original design and very few designers put in so much effort to make an original design. Many top and upcoming  designers have been caught in the web of copying other designers' work. ...

The second week of July was a very busy week for me. A few months back I won an election for the post of the social director of the Quinessential Equity Chambers OAU and last week was a trying moment for my post. Leadership takes a whole lot and it is applicable to every aspect of life including Fashion. In fashion, we have the fashion leaders and the fashion followers.  Fashion leaders are individuals who are highly influential in fashion. Fashion leaders usually have a very strong interest in fashion and have a positive attitude towards change in fashion. Fashion followers are individuals who wear a certain style only after it becomes a popular trend. There are two major aspect of fashion leadership: fashion innovativeness and fashion opinion leadership. Fashion innovativeness is a criteria of fashion leaders who have the tendency to buy new fashion earlier than consumers. Fashion innovativeness often leads to trend setting. There are various celebrities and designers th...