Fashion Meet Up celebrates creativity, style and individuality
while advancing creative entrepreneurship in the fashion industry and transforming
the African narrative through fashion.
Identified as a continuing obstacle to the growth of the fashion
industry in Botswana is the constraint placed on fashion lovers and fashion
creatives to freely express themselves. Our society still dictates the way we
should look and how we ought to dress, placing us in a box of conformity that
does not respect the concept of either individuality or creativity, and
accordingly stunting the potential innovation that must be brought to the
fashion industry.
Fashion meet up is a platform for individuals to express their
styles without limitations or fear. We are for the simplest phrase “DO YOU!”
A room filled with individuality creates diversity.
“Creativity and innovation are key to long term prosperity and
economic success”- Andy William
The strongest asset our country has is the youth!
In the wake of the extreme unemployment, this is the precise
moment to rise the fashion industry into a sector that can create jobs and grow
the economy of Botswana. The fashion industry in Botswana has potential to be a
sector that sustains the economy as it has proven to do across our borders. Our
aim as Fashion meet up is to empower fashion creatives on creative entrepreneurship
as a stepping stone to them becoming successful and powerful business women/men.
If we combine the topic entrepreneurship with creativity we revolutionize the fashion industry in Botswana from being considered a hobby to a respected business venture.
“African arts are used to transform the African narrative”
Our story as Africans has always been told by individuals and
corporations (everybody else who is not African) for their own benefit and in
their quest to exploit Africa. The media have reported stories on the strife
that surround the whole of Africa, and never any that breed positivism or light
into Africa. Creativity has always been used as medium to tell stories. Fashion Meet Up is a platform to share fashion movements that
tell the story of the contemporary African youth.
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