The Dar Fashion Festival

June 23rd and a 6.30pm kick off for the inaugural DFF.
With the theme 'Womens Worth' the event featured a superb showcase of 6 Tanzanian designers.. more on them later.

DFF was created by a small group of women and provides women with the platform, tools and resources to move from a form of subsistance to stability and self sufficiency and therefore contributing to the country's robust private sector. The brochure tells us that DFF aims to fulfill the dreams and goals of one Tanzanian woman at a time.

The models were all part of Black Ice Model Management, some of them had never done a runway show before. I loved them all! All so entirely different in terms of their personalities and their looks.

The DFF was founded by Lucy Navaha, Christine Lasway, Irene Mangi and Madeline Kimei. This event kicked off 3 days and nights of fashion frolics here in Dar.

I was Assistant Director on the show and it was a pleasure and a blast to be a part of it and work with Black Ice. They are very cool customers.