As you can read from last post, Globe Hope joined workshop in Windhoek, but for nice suprise, in several different working stations!

 With joy I borrowed Globe Hope’s products to another action station in Potentials, run by Suvi Matinaro from Marimekko and Namibian fashion designer Chakirra Klaasen. Participants Joseph Salom together with Ndipu Shilongo made a fashion photo vizualization based on ecological values. Cool, or what you think! 

 In facilitators words ”At the fashion action station we study the ’image’ of fashion. A single fashion image can communicate at various levels, but it will only do so if it is well planned. Photography is an essential tool for determining trends, brands, looks and values in the fashion industry. The ’image’ of fashion is a controversial and contradictory subject: It can carry positive and negative messages about lifestyle, health and ethics. Often the fashion industry has presented itself in a poor light by making ’decadent behaviour’ seem desirable. The aims of focussing on the ’image’ of fashion is to make the workshop participants aware of the powerful messages that fashion can communicate and to allow them to discover how it can help build a stronger cultural self-esteem which can be used as a tool for empowerment.” Picture is taken by Charl Du Preez.