The African Development Bank Fashionomics Africa initiative’s third 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.
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, invites interested African fashion brands to apply to the sustainable fashion online competition. Entrants must be pursuing environmentally friendly measures, sustainability, and circular economy actions to qualify. 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.
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.
Eligibility:
If you have more than 3 years of experience managing your business (registered or not), please select the Accelerator Program.
If you have 0 to 3 years of experience managing your business (registered or not), please select the Incubator Program.
How to Apply:
To learn more about the Fashionomics Africa online competition or to submit an entry below,
Applications must be submitted either in English, Portuguese, Arabic or French.
Failure to comply with these requirements will lead to the rejection of the application.
