Hey all. For those of you who don't already know, Arise Africa Fashion Week will be taking place next month at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. It will be eight days of shows, from 51 different designers who hail from 21 different African countries. And then on the ninth day we will party. The first Arise Africa Fashion Awards will take place on the final day and we will get to see who rocks it and takes home the prizes.
Tickets are available from Computicket for R150, if you are in town and want to take it all in for yourself.
Over the years so many of the great designers have borrowed imagery and influence from Africa, and now it is the rest of the world's chance to see this fashion from the source.
I will be there of course, so if you can't make it, this blog will bring you all the front row glamour, all the gossip and the highlights of the fashion itself every single day. Don't go anywhere else.