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Black girls fest: My first Girl’s festival

I attended my first black girl fest recently.

Black Girl First, which is the UK’s first ever festival celebrating black women and girls. Created by Paula Akpan, co-founder of the ‘I’m Tired Project’ and social media coordinator for gal-dem and Nicole Crentsil founder of ‘Unmasked Women’.

I actually never heard of it, until a friend mentioned it to me and told me I should attend.

But by the time I surfed the net to find out more about it, all the tickets were sold out. So, of course, it made me curious.

Eventually, I was able to pull a few strings here and attended as an assistant. (In Cece’s fashion…)

I usually go to these events with an open mind. I mean what’s the worst that can happen?

1- I can go, network and have the most fun, or

2- I attend, don’t like the atmosphere and vow to never return.

But in this instance, I arrive earlier as I had other events to attend. First; A launch party by Monroe&Turtle, then Amazon Fashion weekend in Central.

As soon as I arrived in Shoreditch Town Hall where the festival was taking your place, I recognized so many familiar faces and the rest is (fun) history…

For the day, I wore this vintage skirt and shirt recently bought in a boutique in Notting Hill Gate. A Loewe belt and my all time favorite color blocked wedges. And people really liked it.

What do you think? And will you be attending any major festival soon?

When thinking of new ways to wear African prints for all seasons,

wearing the usual Ankara dress in Autumn will not just cut it. So wearing a bag made of it seems more like a sensible idea.

Ankara is still a very seasonal fabric, which is why Africans in Africa can easily wear it all year round thanks to the beautiful tropical weather. Unlike in Europe, and precisely the UK where we somehow end up with 9 months of cold weather.  View Post