Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Fashionomics Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, Parsons School of Design, strategic consulting and communications agency BPCM, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, invite interested African fashion brands to apply to the sustainable fashion online competition.
The African Development Bank Fashionomics Africa initiative’s second online competition is offering $6,000 total in cash prizes, mentoring, new branding packages and other support for winning African designers of sustainable and circular fashion.
The main purpose of the competition is to highlight the continent’s talented and audacious entrepreneurs who are disrupting the fashion world by placing sustainability at the heart of their design and production.
The competition celebrates African fashion brands that will change how they produce, buy, use and recycle fashion and that encourage a more sustainable shift in consumer practices.
“With the second edition of the Fashionomics Africa contest, the Bank aims to continue highlighting the ingenuity that African fashion designers consistently demonstrate through the strength of their culture and heritage,”.
The competition targets textile, apparel, and accessories entrepreneurs from Africa, aged 18 years or older, who have launched fashion businesses (up to a maximum of 50 employees), and whose sustainable designs have been produced within the last five years. Qualifying applicants will submit pictures of their products, detail their sustainable business model, and explain how their startup is environmentally friendly and innovative.
Examples of sustainability and circularity elements might include materials used, the design process, cleaner or greener production processes – including shipping methods or ways to reduce carbon footprint.
Prize Details
- Amount: $6,000 total in cash prizes
- The designer or design team submitting the “best sustainable design” will win $3,000 along with other prizes.
- Two other competition finalists will take home $1,500 each, plus other support.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entrants must be pursuing environmentally friendly measures, sustainability, and circular economy actions to qualify.
- The competition is open to entrants from across the Continent.
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