Fashion Fabulosity in Accra This Weekend at the 2012 Glitz Africa Fashion Week 2012 – View the Schedule & All the Details

Glitz Africa Magazine, a Ghanaian owned celebrity and lifestyle magazine that embraces fashion and celebrates fashion designers across Africa has announced that its inaugural Fashion Week will hold in Accra this weekend.

The Glitz Africa Fashion Week is tailored to provide the platform for Africa’s Fashion industry to showcase its talents, network, celebrate each others and expose them to unchartered markets. It will be international 3-day event at the Accra International Conference Centre on the 17th, 18th and 19th of August 2012.

It will open vast opportunities for young designers & models as well as increase visibility and promotion of brands associated. Glitz Africa Fashion Week will be produced by Big Ideaz Consult and Media Republic.

The Publisher of Glitz Africa Magazine, Claudia Lumor remarks, “One of the biggest and the fastest growing industries in the world is the fashion industry. This is because of the emergence of daring and dynamic young talents who are not shy to push the boundaries of creativity in the industry. The Fashion Industry needs various platforms like fashion weeks to sustain its rate of growth and for various brands to leverage and draw synergy from the glitz and glamour to promote themselves”

The Glitz Africa Fashion team have selected from a list of top designers of African origin from Ghana, United Kingdom , United States of America and the entire African continent to showcase at 1 venue with 10 fashions shows in 3 days, 40 international models, Seminars/Exhibition and International press.

2012 Glitz Africa Fashion Week Schedule
Friday 17th August 2012
All Day Fashion Sales Exhibition – 9:00AM – 10:00PM
5:00PM

• Opening Ceremony
• Lighting the Fashion Torch
• Opening Performance

6:00PM – DOUBLE SHOW

• ALI ADAMS (South Africa)
• PEACHY PUR (Ghana)

Closing Music Act

7:30PM  – GROUP SHOW

• HOUSE OF ECCENTRIC (Ghana)
• ANI SIYAH (Ghana)
• VONNE COUTURE (Nigeria)

Closing Music Act

9:00PM – DOUBLE SHOW

• KASTLE DESIGNS & TREASURE CHEST (U.S)
• MARTIAL TAPOLO (Paris)

Closing Music Act
Opening VIP After Party

Saturday 18th August 2012
2:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• PEARL AMOAH (Ghana)
• OPHELIA CROSSLAND (Ghana)
• DIO ALI (Cameroon)

Closing Music Act

4:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• AYA MORRISON (Ghana)
• AKUCHI CLOTHING (Ghana)
• FELICIEN CASTERMANN (Benin)
• HABBIB SANGARE (Côte d’Ivoire)

Closing Music Act

6:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• BLACK PEPPER (South Africa)
• DEDO (Ghana)
• N’KYA DESIGNS (Ghana)
• SA4A (Ghana)
• WANA SAMBO CLOTHING (Nigeria)

Closing Music Act

8:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• MODELA COUTURE (Nigeria)
• MINA EVANS (Ghana)
• ABAYA DAKE (U.S)
• KOLTURE APPAREL (Ghana)
• HOUSE OF FARRAH (Nigeria)

Closing Music Act
Makeup Party

Sunday 19th August 2012
3:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• FARRAH (India)
• DIVA DELICIOUS (Ghana)
• AMBASSADOR COUTURE (Nigeria)

Closing Music Act

5:00PM – GROUP SHOW

• IVANA ELLE COUTURE (Ghana)
• OHEMA OHENE (U.K)
• GILLES TOURE (Côte d’Ivoire)

Closing Music Act

7:00PM – DOUBLE SHOW

• MAI ATAFO INSPIRED (Nigeria)
• KOFI ANSAH (Ghana)

Closing Music Act

• Glitz Africa Fashion Week Awards
• Closing After Party