Dakar Tag

Dakar Fashion School PARIS —Dakar Fashion School African fashion is having fun with a renaissance as a latest generation of designers captures the imagination of luxury brands and consumers. But while the continent is wealthy in creativity, most brands have found it difficult to grow beyond their borders as a result of an absence of formal training. That’s the assessment of Sophie Nzinga Sy, a Senegalese designer who has opened the Dakar Design Hub, a training facility that gives courses for budding fashion entrepreneurs and native tailors alike. Nzinga Sy launched her Sophie Zinga brand in 2012 after studying fashion design at The Recent School’s Parsons School of Design in Recent York City, having dropped out of her earlier economics studies at college. “I...