Tallulah Harlech, Atlanta de Cadenet, Suki Waterhouse,
Olivia Palermo, Ellie Goulding, Daisy Lowe and Laura Bailey at the Jonathan
Saunders show London Fashion Week....
Paulina says: I’m at the office but watching live streaming
of fashion shows from London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 collections via
Style.com (http://www.style.com) for their
daily video recaps!!!
Its important to point out that uber bi-annual LFW is sponsored
by high-end brands including: Vodafone (principle sponsor), Mercedes-Benz,
American Express, Tony & Guy, LG, UK Trade & Investment, DHL, The Mayor
of London (can you imagine the Mayor of Accra sponsoring GFDW?, nor can I but
it would be great), Topshop, The mayfair Hotel and many more --and started on
the 13th and finishes tomorrow 17th September 2013…
I’m also getting a much closer look at various pieces by
fave designers via London Fashion Week’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/londonfashionweek)
and it got me thinking…… who will be gracing the front row of this year’s fast
approaching Ghana Fashion & Design Week (GFDW)???
As you can see from the above photos of various celebs --London
Fashion Week is the bomb, one of the most prestigious annual events in the
London ‘calendar’ and attracts oodles of celebrities, press, buyers and fans
from around the world --helping to put London on the map (not that hip London
needs any help –you hear)…
I am hoping that in my lifetime that the Accra metropolis
will come close to achieving some of the success of London with regards to LFW.
Of course it will take work, time and education for all those who can help to
bring this to fruition to understand just how important fashion is to Ghana…
Also, American Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour who
jetted in from NYC for the shows threw a star studded ‘Vogue London Fashion
Week’ dinner party –adding her sparkle to an already fabulous week –and it got
me thinking again…….. whom amongst all the first this and thats in Ghana has
the gravitas and the elegance to throw a Ghana Fashion & Design Week party
to bring together the great and the good of Ghana’s fashion/beauty/media/film/textile
mills/ food/hotel etc industry –to help promote the best of Ghana?? The thing
is …..Ghana’s movers and shakers have yet to cotton onto just how much fashion
and the arts need support, funding and patronising. They are far too quick to
celebrate and buy goods from abroad and don’t seem to respect the talents of
anything happening back home… And then theres the added jagger-jagger-ness of
them only helping those they know regardless of talent or merit….it’s a shame
really.
I truly hope to see more Ghana based celebrities, industry
people, boutique owners, hoteliers, socialites, and Accra’s ladies-who-lunch at
this year’s GFDW which is taking place at uber prestigious Mövenpick Hotel Accra
from the 11th to 13th October 2013 –alongside the growing
number of international press and Ghanaian media outlets covering this go-to
event with VIM…..
For more info about Ghana fashion & Design Week
visit: http://www.ghanafashiondesignweek.com/
Your thoughts about this are exactly like mine Paulina! GDFW has so much potential but like you said it needs the right people behind it to make it that much more fabulous!!
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