The fashion show is a culmination of the Black Fashion Accelerator, a six-month intensive program that helps Black entrepreneurs in fashion.
The Shopify store had large open-faced windows that gave way to multitiered stage, where models emerged through the spliced crowd to showcase the designers’ collections. DJ Mixshow and host Gitoo entertained the crowd with Afrobeats tunes and conversational jargon that gave the show into a warm, familiar atmosphere.
Along with designing sustainable fashion, Besida also pays the West African women artisans who work for the brand a living wage, a factor Okotie said helped financially equip many of the workers to enroll in higher education. Inspired by the Zambia space program of the 1960s, Mizizi’s new collection, called Afronaut, took a futuristic twist on the idea of Black people wearing custom Mizizi on a voyage to space.
Fashion influencer Claire Sulmers, founder of fashion blog Fashion Bomb Daily was among the attendees, as was Monique Rodriguez, founder of Black-owned hair care brand Mielle Organics, which styled all of the models’ hair for the show.
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