NEWS
2009
April - Italy
MAX&Co.&AFRICA&YOU is the outcome of an ongoing partnership between the ITC’s Ethical Fashion Program, MAX&Co.
(a retail project of the Max Mara Fashion Group), and more than 500 disadvantaged Kenyan women.
Our first project has been a colaboration between many separate individuals who, by working together with a surprising mix of ethics & fashion,
have created a small but precious collection of fashion accessories; a truely exciting and innovative project based on sensitivity, creativity and HOPE.
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2 February - Italy
A catwalk show on the collections of three African designers involved in the ethical fashion approach of ITC will take place in Rome next 2 February, within
the framework of AltaromAltamoda fashion week. The three designers are: Kofi Ansah, Imane Ayissi and Sylvia Owori.
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2008
7 July - Italy
ITC holds an Ethical Fashion workshop during the AltaromAltamoda fashion week.
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28-30 May - Japan
ITC Executive Director, Mrs. Patricia Francis, presents the Ethical Fashion project during TICAD IV.
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20-22 April - Ghana
ITC helps put "Ethical Fashion" on the development agenda at UNCTAD XII Accra meeting.
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13 February - United Kingdom
Mr. Simone Cipriani and the EFF (Ethical Fashion Forum) introduces the project during the London Fashion Week.
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28 January - Italy
ITC and its Executive Director Mrs. Patricia Francis presents the Ethical Fashion project during AltaromAltamoda.
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9 January
The partners of Africa Inspires encouraged potential designers to continue to support the EF project in Kenya.
2007
26-28 November - Kenya
ITC is organising a workshop in Kenya between the 26th and the 28th November 2007.
The workshop is aimed at fashion, textiles, and interior product designers and buyers.
It will be open to up to 25 participants, invited from all over the world.
The workshop programme will include the following:
- An introduction to Eastern Africa, its people, its materials and to the project concept and its implications in terms of poverty reduction.
- Sourcing from Africa: design capacities and products available in Kenya for international buyers.
- An introduction to the community projects that support disadvantaged groups, as well as to materials and capacities and creative design workshops on site.