African Sustainable Fashion Show 2023 | Reducing Fashion's Ocean Plastic Pollution | Afro-SFI 2023 | Sustainable Fashion in Cameroon
The 1st edition of the Afro-Sustainable Fashion Show of January, 2023, was a runway with a difference, showcasing designs from eco-friendly fabrics only.
Put together by Catarina Natang, a Cameroon based fashion house and sponsored by the Afri-Plastic Challenge, the Afro-Sustainable Fashion Show was a major step in creating awareness and emphasizing the importance of reducing plastic based fabrics in fashion design.
Team member and organizer Mr. Divine Abanke, environmentalist and health Specialist, enlightened the guest stating the availability of at least 10% of plastics in almost every clothing we wear, either through dye or other fabrics. Plastics are cheap, durable and stable thus, fostering its manufacture and gross production.
All these micro plastics pollutes the ocean killing aquatic life and in turn causes harmful illnesses to humans who consume these sea foods. Our oceans are polluted with over 35% of micro-plastics coming from the fabrics we wear and it can take over a 1000 years to breakdown the micro-plastics settled at the ocean floor affecting the Algea; the ocean’s forest.
The Afro-Sustainable Fashion Show was a laminating factor that expressed the possibilities of sustaining our eco-system and maintaining a plastic free ocean. What we wear contributes greatly to the amount of plastic in the ocean. Nine designers presented 10 collections of both men, women and children clothing sown out of waste fabrics, an implementation of their training and empowerment in sustainable fashion through the Training Empowerment-Promotion model (TEP).
The designers included: Boni Creative, Ayisi’s Collection, Nibcima Designs, Blessing Fashion House, House of Trose, Blizz Fusion, Gabi Designs, Formithentic and J&J Fashion.
Mrs. Catharine N. Michel-Maboh through the Afro-Sustainable Fashion Show demystified the concept of sustainable fashion and the showcasing of designs from eco-friendly fabrics.
In-exclusive of all other plastics: bottles, straws and many others, the Afro-Sustainable Fashion Initiative, through the Training Empowerment-Promotion Model (TEP), seeks to train designers, aspiring designers as well as vulnerable internally displaced persons. The TEP Model trains and empowers individuals in sustainable fashion, educate them to embark on using bio-degradable materials for clothing, in order to save the oceans from micro-plastic pollution thus, saving the ecosystem.
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