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🌍 Pepkor buys 4 Retailability brands, China opposes new French regulations

Your African fashion news & careers update for 27th March 2025

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🌍 SA designers protest counterfeits, INDITEX pushes into new markets

Your African fashion news & careers update for 20 March 2025

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🌍 Bathu acquires Boys of Soweto, HEVA Fund unlocks $5M for creatives

Your African fashion news & careers update for 14 March 2025

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🌍 AGOA uncertainty grows, Prada-Versace deal progresses

Your African fashion news & careers update for 6 March 2025

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🌍 AfCFTA enters operational phase, Saks takes luxury to Amazon

Your African fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 27 February 2025

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Building AYANA

Unpacking Pepkor's plan to dominate South Africa's womenswear market

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🌍 Nigeria x Tunisia's production collab, 'Made In Ethiopia' heads to Paris

Here's your African fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 13 February 2025

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🌍 New micro grants for African fashion, SHEIN returns to India

Here's your African fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 6 February 2025

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🌍 Nairobi Fashion Week, FARO raises $6M, adidas Germany to cut jobs

Here's your African fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 27 January 2025

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🌍 Kantamanto fire, markets respond to Trump tariff news

Here's your fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 13 January 2025

🌍 One Last 2024 edition :)

Here's your fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 30 December 2024

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🌍 Your non-Black Friday-news catch up

Here's your fashion news & careers cheat sheet for 29 November 2024