{"id":4145,"date":"2012-06-13T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=4145"},"modified":"2012-06-13T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:58:32","slug":"african-designers-making-themselves-not-only-seen-but-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/african-designers-making-themselves-not-only-seen-but-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"African Designers: Making Themselves Not Only Seen But Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mod-a-body-first-para\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2012\/06\/Korto-Momolu-1.png\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4146 lazyload\" title=\"Korto Momolu-1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2012\/06\/Korto-Momolu-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>African designers are bringing styles from their\u00a0 continent to the rest of the world, but enhancing their designs to make it luxury fashions, hence defying the stereotypes that outsiders have on African Attire.<\/p>\n<p>These designers,\u00a0 are however, not abandoning their roots, but rather embracing\u00a0 new ideas of fashion trends, in order to expand. They are spreading their influence globally while still adhering to the trends and tastes of those in their home country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Africa Fashion Week was established in order to give <a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyorkdesigners\/\">International designers<\/a> a platform and opportunity to Showcase their designs and make the world aware of the beauty and luxury that is African Fashion. We are excited to Showcase the garments from our International Designers on <a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyorkschedule\/\">July 12, 13, and 14. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African designers are bringing styles from their\u00a0 continent to the rest of the world, but enhancing their designs to make it luxury fashions, hence defying the stereotypes that outsiders have on African Attire. These designers,\u00a0 are however, not abandoning their roots, but rather embracing\u00a0 new ideas of fashion trends, in order to expand. They are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[229,88,101,76,78,79,80,89,90,102,103,82,83,104,86,258],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}