Fashion Lab

Fashion Lab is the first Fashion-Business radio show to go live on air in Africa. It dissects the business behind fashion to provide a platform where growth and development within the fashion industry is promoted and facilitated for sustainability and economic growth.
Weekly English South Africa Fashion & Beauty
132 Episodes
20 – 40

Raw Denim

This week the Fashion Lab team discusses raw denim in their denim series. They tackle what it is, points to consider when sourcing for raw denim and wash/care. Joining this conversation is Fashion Lab Africa partner and host Liz Ogumbo-Regisford, Eji Benson, FLA partner and contributor with his echoes from…
17 Aug 2017 51 min

Everything Denim Part 2

This week the team continues the denim series. They are joined by the managing director of Replay/Next Generation Matthew Bolus, who shares his insights around his life in the denim retail business and what role it is fulfilling within the fashion value chain.
10 Aug 2017 46 min

Everything Denim Part 1

Everything denim... an essential part of our lives. Join Fashion Lab Africa partner and host Liz Ogumbo-Regisford, Eji Benson - FLA partner and contributor with his echoes from NYC, and contributor Francesca Marzilli with her echoes from Europe for the beginning of 'Denim-filled August'.
3 Aug 2017 54 min

Brand Development

This week the Fashion Lab team talks about brand development. They are joined by Elikem Kumordzie - a Ghanaian tailor and actor best known for representing Ghana in the 2013 'Big Brother' reality show.
27 Jul 2017 52 min

Fashion Collection Planning & Development

The team talks about fashion collection planning and development and is joined by sourcing and production expert specialising in Africa and other emerging markets, Nadiyah Bradshaw Spencer. Also weighing in is brand strategist and co-founder of Project Fable (a content consultancy that curates and creates content for brands as leverage…
20 Jul 2017 52 min

The Impact of Amazon on Fashion Retail

The team is joined by Rosie Maria Cafarelli, who is an energetic and seasoned on air personality with a comedic flare who has hosted live television, national shopping channels, infomercials and travel shows.
13 Jul 2017 51 min

The Chinese Connection

This week the team talks about Chinese economic engagement within the fashion industry in Africa and beyond. Joining the conversation is Fashion Lab Africa’s partner and contributor, Eji Benson, who also runs Ennui NYC, with his echoes from NYC... along with fashion expert, creative, designer and dreamer, Francesca Marzilli with…
6 Jul 2017 49 min

Finance & Fashion

The Fashion Lab team talks finance and fashion. They are joined by a Zambian accountant turned fashion designer and creative director for fashion brand, Chizo Designs.
29 Jun 2017 48 min

African Fashion Starting Out From Grass-Root Level

The Fashion Lab team talks about African fashion starting out from grass-root level. Joining the conversation is Stephen Okoth, who has been deemed a fashion icon in Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya - the biggest slum in Africa. The team is also joined by PR and Strategy warrior, Kelebogile Mabunda, who…
22 Jun 2017 45 min

African Fashion's #CurrentSituation

The team touches base with the current state of affairs in African fashion by dissecting and focusing on the African fashion Industry, with insights from a few different stakeholders within the fashion game from West, East and South Africa. They are joined by CEO & Founder of ASM - Alinah…
15 Jun 2017 57 min

FashionDesignerExclusive with Gugu Nkabinde

Gugu Nkabinde - CEO, Strategist and Entrepreneur with over 8 years brand and marketing management - joins host Liz Ogumbo-Regisford... along with contributors Eji Benson and Francesca Marzilli.
8 Jun 2017 52 min

The Fashion Education Curriculum in Africa

The team is joined by Academic head of the Fashion Academy Network in Johannesburg, Dr Braam Krüger - along with the head of Marketing, Kgomotso Primrose Moloantoa as they focus on a conversation around the Fashion Education Curriculum in Africa today.
1 Jun 2017 52 min

Fashion & Media in Africa Part 2

The team talks exclusively to Kweku Ansah, the Founder Creative Director for CANOE magazine, to unpack the status of fashion media in Africa today and where its future lies.
25 May 2017 50 min

Fashion Media & Africa 1

The team talks exclusively to AfroStyle magazine (ASM), an African-inspired, multicultural/multiracial online magazine that covers contemporary issues in fashion, entertainment, arts/culture and social issues. ASM speaks of value, expresses beauty, comments on attitude and identifies substantive style. With the team in studio are ASM partners Amaka Onyia, CEO/Editor-in-Chief of ASM,…
18 May 2017 51 min

#SocialCommerce #Ecommerce Part 2

The team is joined by 'Sid' Khurrum Hasan, CEO of a new revolutionary fashion app called MeSpoke. Plus insights from Eji Benson and Francesca Marzilli.
11 May 2017 46 min

#SocialCommerce #Ecommerce - Part 1

The team talks everything around fashion from a Social Commerce/E-Commerce angle. They are joined by special guests Christopher Augustine and the rest of the FYI Online team... along with their brand new European contributor, Francesca Marzilli - plus US - Fashion Lab Partner and contributor on the show, Eji Benson.
4 May 2017 53 min

According to Africa, Style is...

The team engages with fashion lovers across the continent from the East, West, Central, North and South Africa. They are picking the general consumers' minds around their relationships with fashion and how they perceive style.
20 Apr 2017 49 min

Fashion & Fitness

The team talks fashion and fitness... they are joined by fitness junkie and gym owner Rene Roberts-Patel and founder of a South African activewear brand, Nothulako Maseko.
13 Apr 2017 52 min

The African Fashion Consumer

The team discusses the African fashion consumer in Africa. Who is this consumer? What do they want? Do they have access to what they want? What are they willing to spend to get what they want? Are the retail hubs offering what they want? Boutique owner of 'Designer Studio' in…
6 Apr 2017 44 min

Fashion-Trend-Conscience

Liz Ogumbo-Regisford and contributors Eji Benson and Morag Steyn discuss 'Fashion-Trend-Conscience' - specifically for creatives constantly coming up with new design stories for their next collection.
23 Mar 2017 55 min
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