It’s handbags and glad-rags for first Fashion Week
Fashionistas are set to come together in the capital for the first-ever Zimbabwe Fashion Week, scheduled to begin here on December 29. (Pictured: Organiser of Zimbabwe Fashion Week Priscilla Chigariro.)
The week-long gala event will see fashion designers from across the country sharing the limelight with their counterparts from the diaspora. The organiser of the inaugural event, South Africa-based Zimbabwean model Priscilla Chigariro, said: “It will raise the level of awareness of fashion in Zimbabwe and designers who have been sitting on their laurels for the past years will stand up. Read more
Courtesy : www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
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