Senegal celebrated 20 years of Dakar Fashion Week in style on Saturday with a show on the historic island of Goree, once associated with slavery.
The event was organized by Adama N’Diaye, a French designer with Senegalese roots and French brand owner. Adama Paris.
“I am completely happy, my baby [Dakar Fashion Week] it has grown and today it is a very nice party with 20 exceptional designers. So I can only be happy that this baby has grown and that my dream has become ours”. (…) “African fashion is inspiring a lot. You have seen Chanel in Dakar and this is not little, and other brands have gone to other places in Africa. African fashion is creative, diversified, beautiful and daring,” said Adama Ndiaye, designer and organizer of Dakar Fashion Week.
The event showcased the work of 20 designers from Angola, Morocco, Mali, Mozambique and South Africa, to name just a few.
“The particularity is being in Africa, bringing together all the African designers, each with their own cultural identity, and being able to put everyone on the same catwalk, that’s what’s great,” smiles Moroccan designer Karim Tassi.
The event also boosts the local fashion industry while encouraging more young people to pursue a career in this business.
Khadim Ndiongue is a young designer who participated in the event.
“Of course, it boosts the fashion sector in Senegal. Because it already gives young fashion entrepreneurs audacity to be able to open up much more in this field and be much more in the thing, ”he said.
Dakar Fashion Week ends on Sunday evening with a “white night” event.
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