The United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Education (UNESCO) will be playing host to the global edition of the Africa Fashion Reception, Paris coming up on the 29th October, 2016 in its Place de Fontenoy headquarters. This is due to a new patronage and partnership between the Africa Fashion Reception and UNESCO (the world’s number 1 cultural organization).
According
to the official letter from the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova to Her
Excellency, Mrs Mariam Y. Katagum, Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO who
are co-hosts of the AFR, she congratulated the organizers for such an important
initiative. She said the AFR falls into the mandate of UNESCO’s field of
competence.
The Africa
Fashion Reception (AFR) is a Pan African initiative. The global edition
will gather fashion designers, dignitaries, Ambassadors and media from over 30
African countries, in a celebration of cultural diversity expressed through the
artistic fashion discipline with the proud theme ‘Africa is the New
Inspiration of Global Fashion’
The
African edition was hosted by the African Union in its headquarters in Addis
Ababa 13th - 15th September, 2016. Activities lined up
during the African edition were the first African Fashion Business Summit and
exhibition by each of the participating countries.
The Africa
Fashion Reception is aimed at achieving the following objectives using the
creative industry of Fashion as a vehicle:
·
To build
bridges by creating free trade and partnerships among fashion practitioners
throughout the African continent
·
To
attract global attention to Africa’s very rich and diversified dress culture
which can be explored as a catalyst for the social economic growth of the
continent’s garment/textile industry.
·
To
expand the potential power of fashion as a tool of fighting poverty in Africa
by creating wealth through the empowerment of women and youths in the various
fashion vocations through training, capacity building schemes, workshops and
setting up of medium/small scale businesses thereby supporting the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union
Agenda 2063
·
To bring
about self-reliance as this initiative will create millions of jobs across the
continent for Tailors, Creative Directors, Textile designers, Models, Cutters,
Pressers, Fashion Photographers & Writers, Hair Stylists, Make-up Artists
etc
The
Africa Fashion Reception is organized and packaged by Legendary Gold Limited in
collaboration with UNESCO, the Nigerian Permanent Delegation to UNESCO, African
Union Commission and Atunda Entertainment. According to the CEO of Africa
Fashion Reception, Lexy Mojo-Eyes ‘This platform has been specially created for
positive change. The AFR is not just an event. It is a movement’
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