EAST AFRICA FASHION WEEK EVENT HOSTED BY THE BOMA HOTEL
(Posted 08th May 2014)
The Boma Hotel in Nairobi is going to host the East African Fashion Week this coming Saturday, offering fashion aficionados an insight into the latest designs for dresses and accessories’.
Designers from across Eastern Africa will be showcasing their latest ideas, using local fabrics and bright African colours to bring out the location, East Africa, as an up- and coming fashion centre.
Notable will 40 percent of the gate takings be given to a fund feeding the hungry in the Lake Turkana area which has been hit by draught and has seen the population there starve due to lack of homegrown food.
The Fashion week starts today, 08th May with an event at Galileo Xtreme where a ‘Pre Party’ will be hosted before eventually culminating in the grand night at The Boma, where an entrance of Kenya Shillings 3.000 will get guests admitted to a night of glitz and glamour.
East African fashion events have been escalating in numbers over the past years, a pointer towards the talent which exists now in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and the keen interest in fashion among the young and upwardly who make up a significant part, with growing disposable incomes, of East Africa’s society.
