Fashion

Black Fashion Week featuring Pacome 2019

Black Fashion Week 2019   My name is Patricia Ghonda-Zola. I am a Congolese-American fashion designer. I have a background in IT however I found my way back into fashion after I…

Black Fashion Week featuring Akese Stylelines 2019

Black Fashion Week 2019   Akese Stylelines splashed on to the Chicago fashion scene in early 2012. Designer Jennifer Akese Burney captures the vibrance and color of the popular Ankara tradition while…

Black Fashion Week Featuring Teresa Fe Fe Designs 2017

Black Fashion Week 2017   Celebrity Artist Designer Teresa Fe-Fe Barrow is the driving force behind Teresa Fe-Fe Designs Ms. Fe-Fe Uniquely created designs consist of hand painted jackets, purses, hats, shoes…

Knotty Loop Creations

Black Fashion Week 2017   Mona Muhammad aka Ms. Knotty Loop says “Don’t believe the hype… this ain’t your grandmother's crochet”  – Mona a considers her designs to be Sasschet? (Not sure…

Black Fashion Week featuring BLKLST 2016

Black Fashion Week 2016   Urban Fashion Show   J.  Smith’s BLKLST Perpetually Fabulous BLKLST is a women’s and girls’ clothing and  accessory line. It celebrates African American women’s style through bright colors…

Akese Stylelines 2016

Black Fashion Week 2016   Born and raised in Ghana and currently based in Chicago, Jennifer graduated with a Bachelors in Fashion Design and Technology from Takoradi Polytechnic. She started sewing at…

Black Fashion Week featuring Dream Designs 2016

Dreams Designs was birthed in the late 1990’s by Joyce Boykin. Joyce a native of Chicago IL, and designer of over 40yrs is a former graduate of Austin High School, and the…

Catou 2016

Berny Martin is the fashion wiz behind his line "Catou" a nickname of  his grandmother whom he decided to launch his company after. A sophisticated and confident woman, it was she who…