[Bunmi Koko and her partner, Francis Udom, as she accepts the award for Best International Emerging Talent]
It has been a long but enthralling look at Africa Fashion Week over the past week and to wrap things up nicely, the Africa Fashion Awards held this evening in South Africa. Thanks to the Twitter, we felt like we were there live with fashion's finest as each winner was announced. A big, big congratulations to all the nominees and winners! [Please note: We may need to edit the names of the categories a little later on when we get an official list.]
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INTERNATIONAL DESIGNER OF THE YEAR: Duro Olowu
DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (AFRICA): Black Coffee
TOP MAKE-UP ARTIST AT AFRICA FASHION AWARDS: Pat McGrath
BEST STYLIST: Edward Enninful
BEST FASHION COMMUNICATOR: Bella Naija
BEST INTERNATIONAL EMERGING TALENT: Bunmi Koko
EMERGING AFRICAN DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (AFRICA): Ituen Basi
STYLE INFLUENCER (MALE): Michael Jackson
STYLE ICON/INFLUENCER (FEMALE): Grace Jones
MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (INTERNATIONAL): Ozwald Boateng
MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (AFRICA): Stiaan Lowu
MODEL OF THE YEAR: Sessilee Lopez
MOST OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO AFRICAN FASHION: Marianne Fassler
TOP HAIR DIRECTION: Saadique Ryklief
MAKE-UP DIRECTION: Pat McGrath
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY: Koto Bolofo
ACCESSORIES DESIGNER OF THE YEAR: Albertus Swanepoel
RETAILER OF THE YEAR: Africhic (http://www.africhic.com)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaia, Joseph Ettedgui
[See last year's list of winners here.]
A special congratulations to Ituen Basi (who won the award for Innovation in Design last year), two of our personal favourites - Bunmi Koko and Duro Olowu -, and Bella Naija!!!! We thought Deola Sagoe should've won something...alas, it wasn't to be.
Any winners you're especially excited about? Any surprises? Please share!
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Photo courtesy of Simon Deiner/SDR Photos
Special Thanks to DeGorgeous1 & JMyburgh on Twitter!