Weaving the Future: African Designers of Today: Waridi Schrobsdorff presents four African upcycling labels
Waridi Schrobsdorff was born in Kenya and has lived in Berlin for many years. She writes for VOGUE about the (fashionable) talents of Africa. She presents her work with the FA254 platform and four upcycling labels in this text.
Working as an African Fashion advocate in Germany has been an enriching journey.
Fashion Africa 254 is a platform I founded based in Berlin. I aim to rebrand Africa focusing on its emerging designers, styles, and creative movers, shaking the continent up by bridging Africa with German-speaking countries and vice versa. Starting in 2013/14 with the
first edition of ADFT (“African Designers for Tomorrow”), a collection of 15 selected designers from across the African continent were displayed and sold at Lodenfrey, a fashion department store in Munich.
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