At the beginningsof February 2009, in Luanda city in Angola, Africa a magnificent fashion show event took place. The top local designers of the country showed their latest trends and also new beauty queens on the runways. For more than two hours the designers demonstrated on the catwalks, the best of their collections for the public to air their comments. This being one the West African countries, where the famous kitenge or chitenge garment designs are common, no one would have smelled European flavor on the way.
The local designers displayed items that exposed a combination of European and Africa fabrics because of the devastating effects of global economic crisis. As anyone familiar with these parts of Africa would imagine seeing on the runways, these local Angola fashion designers presented the typical African kitenge attires, silky robes with elegant patterns and variety of colors. Others displayed satin a garments, with variety of colors.
Luanda’s Arena, (more…)