Inspiration
Education
Connection
Attitude
With the content of our platform, we focus on creatives of African origin in contemporary fashion and connect them with socially relevant topics. In doing so, we support BIPOC creatives to gain more visibility and open the dialogue between creative industries, culture, education and politics. We expand the Eurocentric perspective with new narratives and images and create access to a new fashion world through cultural appreciation. By using fashion as a vehicle, and celebrating identities.
Breaking Stereotypes Changing Narratives
Our Offer
We offer a network of international creatives and create access.
APYA is available for individual and in-process consulting.
Scouting / Inspiration /
Education / Networking
Lectures / Panel Talks /
Seminars / Workshops
We curate campaigns
and events
We create projects
with an interdisciplinary mindset
Project
partnership or
sponsorship
Whether community building, culture marketing, culture branding or awareness for your communications
Participation
as an intrinsically
motivated person
Be part of the movement! We are curious to know your work, pitch or submit your lookbook, editorial or story.
Our founder
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola founded the creative agency APYA Productions in 2012 and launched the pioneering platform Africa Fashion Day Berlin (AFDB) in January 2013. AFDB was relaunched in 2016 under the name Fashion Africa Now – from one idea, a visual business card for designers of African origin was created. Her passion for contemporary fashion, the difficult access for BIPOC to the international fashion industry as well as the lack of coverage and the need for self-determined visualisation of the African fashion movement, which is pushing into new creative areas, prompted her to found this platform. The platform permanently creates space for Afrocentric/Afrodiasporic artistic perspectives within the network and develops its own formats that bring new publics together.
