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Where would you host a Black Fashion week? Which designers would you showcase?
Which Black models would you showcase? You have
Which Black Performers would you showcase?

If I could host A Black Fashion Week I would host it in san francisco. Some of the designers I would showcase would be Draya Michele, Serena Williams and any other designers that haven’t been noticed by the public. I would also showcase all the up coming modles on instagram to give them a chance to share their talents with the world. I would want to showcase all the performers that want to start their career but haven’t had any luck.

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What is Black Fashion Week in Shanghai?

Shanghai Black Fashion week gives all kind of designers a chance to share there talents with the world. Shanghai Black Fashion Week is the first and only fashion week Event that’s has diversity. Shanghai Black Fashion Week also helps designers receive  advice from professionals. Also chances to learn information that is Only told to a few people in the industry.

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As the world finishes up months of Fashion Week runways, red carpets and interviews Shanghai will unveil a secret world full of life, color and style. Enter Shanghai Black Fashion Week, a week of fashion events and parties showcasing Shanghai's most talented black and Chinese designers. From the

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What is  Black Fashion Week in Paris?
Black Fashion Week in Paris shows a traditional style from the designers. They used Bazan fabric for dresses and other clothing. People all over the world came to paris to watch senegalese cultural clothing. Adama Paris introduces black fashion Week for the first time in Paris.

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What is Dakar Fashion week?

Darker Fashion Week is wearing  traditional red clothing with African symbols. Dakar Fashion week features people from 30 countries to showcase their talents and designs. Designers make their own traditional style with international clothing. Dakar Fashion Week started 17 years ago by Adama Paris.

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cette semaine va célébrer la mode en révélant les richesses culturelles  de l’afrique. 

au delà des défilés pour révéler les stylistes

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il s’agit d’associer l’artisanat  et la musique à ces rendez-vous festifs. 

l’évènement est présent maintenant chaque année pour célébrer la  beauté noire et l’émancipation de la femme noire. 

cette semaine permet de propulser de jeunes stylistes sénégalais sur la  scène internationale en apportant un pont entre la création dans le reste  du monde et au sénégal.

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Cette semaine va célébrer la mode en révélant les richesses culturelles de l'Afrique. Au delà des défilés pour révéler les stylistes, il s'agit d'associer l'artisanat et la musique à ces rendez-vous festifs. L'évènement est présent maintenant chaque année pour célébrer la beauté noire et l'émancipation de la femme noire.

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Who is Adama Paris? Where is she from?
How did she start Black Fashion Week?

Adama Paris is a Senegalese fashion designer that started Black Fashion Week. She was born in Kinshasa,  Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Her parents were Senegalese prince and princess who raised her in Europe where they were diplomats. She spent most of her life traveling the world before settling down in France.  In 2010  she changed her name  to Adama Paris.  She started Black Fashion Week to make a difference in how the fashion industry viewed black women by increasing the visibility of black fashion.

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Senegalese fashion designer Adama Amanda Ndiaye is better known by the name of her world renowned label, Adama Paris. African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Follow the team on Twitter.
Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- Wearing a stylish red dress and a beaming smile, celebrated fashion designer Adama Paris sits comfortably inside her spacious living room in Dakar, the vibrant seaside capital of Senegal, as we discuss her inspirations.

"My designing process starts always with me," explains Paris. "With what I want to wear; with what is in my closet -- my style is multi-cultural, it's eclectic, it's the mix of my travels, it's bold, it's rocky," she adds. "It's African."

Indeed, for more than a decade the Senegalese designer has been putting African fashion to global runways and clothing stores -- from New York and London to Paris and Tokyo.

But besides spreading her stylish vision around the world, Paris is also bringing attention closer to home -- 12 years ago she founded Dakar Fashion Week, a popular event allowing designers from all over West Africa and beyond to showcase their colorful creations to fashion lovers and international media.

"The fashion scene in Senegal is so bold," says Paris, whose real name is Adama Amanda Ndiaye. "I have seen it grow like a baby and I am so proud to be a part of this."
Putting Africa on the fashion map Surfing inspires Senegalese designer Designer's exciting new venture Black Fashion Week
Following the initial success of the Dakar Fashion week, Paris began receiving invitations to attend big designers' shows in fashion capitals like London and New York. But whilst there, she quickly started feeling like an outsider.

"I was really frustrated," she says. "When I looked around there were so few black models and I felt like I wasn't belonging there."

That frustration was behind Paris' decision to start Black Fashion Week in 2010 to help promote the talented black designers and models that she felt were being ignored by the industry. Paris held the inaugural event in the Czech Republic, followed by editions in Paris, Montreal, Geneva and Bahia.

"I thought it was right ... to try to do something to help my own people and to get more exposure," she says. "It was not saying them they were wrong, it was saying, 'OK, we are here,'" adds Paris.

"It was also a statement [to] the fashion industry, 'stop this discrimination, black is beautiful.' I am sick and tired of seeing only skinny blonde girls and not black women in the runway."
From the runway to the TV screen
The daughter of diplomats, Paris spent much of her childhood traveling and soaking up other cultures before finally settling in France where she attended college. She first made a name for herself in the French capital but decided to bring her fashion home to Senegal in 2001.

Now, with a thriving label and flourishing annual events under her belt, the fashion entrepreneur is taking on her next business venture -- TV.

A two-year project in the making, Paris has had her heart set on creating a new avenue to promote local fashion talent. Starting with a reality show she describes as the "equivalent of America's Next Top Model," Paris wants to provide new opportunities for aspiring young models from the continent.

"We wanted really young girls and give them [an] opportunity to go outside Senegal to model in Africa -- South Africa, Angola [and] also in Europe. This is going to be a big deal because it is probably going to start their career."

Her other goal is to introduce viewers to alternative fashion designers. While there are currently channels devoted to fashion, Paris explains that they don't show enough African inspiration and when they do, coverage tends to focus on designers from South Africa.

"I want them to see us in Nigeria, Ghana, Dakar. That was the purpose of this channel," she says.

"I want people to see we have great designers. And that's what I'm going to show -- Africans wearing African clothes," adds Paris. Fashion made in Africa by Africans."
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Adama Paris to fashion industry: 'Stop discrimination, black is beautiful'

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Senegalese fashion designer Adama Amanda Ndiaye is better known by the name of her world renowned label, Adama Paris. African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Follow the team on Twitter.