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DIESEL+EDUN: PRESENT STUDIO AFRICA

A Denim Collection Born in Africa

Studio Africa launches in London TONIGHT with Boiler Room event featuring Theo Parrish, Culoe De Song, Omar S, Kyle Hall, Baloji.

Solange confirmed as advocate for Studio Africa

If your reading this feature tomorrow morning via the newsletter it happened last night but stay tuned for more coverage. Stay tuned tonight on instagram, twitter, Facebook and Tumblr for up to the minute coverage as I will be posting live.

Spring 2013 marks the launch of a collaboration that goes beyond fashion: DlESEL+EDUN present a denim collection born in Africa and worn by a new generation of creative talents. Inspired by African creativity, the collection is manufactured in Africa with the finest CCI cotton from Uganda.

To bring the spirit of the 25-piece collection to life, DIESEL+EDUN developed the concept of Studio Africa – a virtual loudspeaker and platform for a new generation of creative talents from across the continent.

Studio Africa will launch with a series of collaborative, global live events with Boiler Room, the leading online broadcaster for live-stream music. Shows in Tokyo, Paris, London, Berlin and LA will bring together African and Western musicians in a celebration of creativity beyond borders.

Boiler Room & Studio Africa host a London launch event tonight, Tuesday March 5th:
http://boilerroom.tv/diesel-edun-present-studio-africa-hosted-by-boiler-room-london/

As an advocate for Studio Africa, Solange will support the project’s commitment to promoting and celebrating African creativity throughout 2013.

"My love for African fashion, music and art runs deep to my core and has been a significant source of inspiration to me as an artist. I'm constantly being exposed to such innovative African talent so I'm excited that Diesel + Edun is celebrating that extraordinary creativity through Studio Africa and taking me along for the journey!" – Solange, March 2013

Studio Africa’s celebration of creativity, is underpinned by the nine African artists featured in the campaign, spanning fashion, film, music, literature and photography, to bring the spirit of the Diesel+EDUN collection to life.



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The new Pinko Bag collection full of African charm Marina Spadafora and FD4 working together for Ethiopia

Pinko, the Italian lifestyle fashion brand, will unveil a new bag collection during Milan Fashion Week. Taking place at theGiangaleazzo Visconti art gallery in the heart of the city (Corso Monforte 23), the high-profile event will focus on introducing a new vision within fashion, whereaesthetics and ethics collide.

Pinko has always had a strong global vision, a unique tendency for catching on quickly to trends and values and bringing them to life within its stores worldwide, in the form of clothes and accessories.

In the 1990s the Pinko Bags were a huge success for the company, a source of pure fashion fun for a generation of women. Today’s version of the product, Pinko Bags for Ethiopia takes the original product to new heights, and infuses it with fresh ethical significance.

Pinko chairman Pietro Negra explains, “With our Pinko Bags for Ethiopia we want to relaunch one of our most iconic products. Yet most of all we want to create objects that spark emotion within the customer due to the craftsmanship that has gone into them. I think globalisation can play a valuable role in bringing prosperity to distant cultures, especially if we can use the interest and support of people in the West.”

Pinko invited Marina Spadafora, the pioneering Italian designer and Ethical Fashion Ambassadress, to create the bag collection with ‘awareness and renewal’ as the inspirational force behind each design. Spadafora stated, “Through this project I expressed my motto ‘fashion with a mission’ by reproducing the body painting signs and symbols of the tribes of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia, on each bag.”

The Italian fashion designer continues, “Africa is our future, the local arts and crafts industry is a treasure chest of products in cooperation with nature. Pinko Bags for Ethiopia aims to help safeguard both.”

Pinko participates actively in Fashion for Development (F4D), a global awareness project that seeks to nurture economic growth and independence in Third World countries through the power of fashion. In full support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, F4D devotes particular attention to women as cultural caretakers of artisan traditions.

The Pinko Bags for Ethiopia are made from 100% African cotton by an all-female team of workers in an eco-sustainable factory in Adis Abeba. “This is a totally viable business, with no element of charity,” Marina Spadafora assures. “Little by little the women will acquire economic independence, along with a new sense of respect in their society.”

Guest at the event included ...

        Caroline Issa                                   Marina Spadafora with Jordan Stone                              Lyia Kebede

TODAY'S SONG IS ....

I have not stopped singing this since the KTZ fashion show at London Fashion week....

EDUN Poem Scarf available now at www.edun.com‏ #GREAT CAUSE

Through October all proceeds from the sale of the Poem Scarf will be donated to Concern Worldwide US to support Horn of Africa drought relief efforts.


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