Africa En Vogue

Last year Italian Vogue Editor-In-Chief, Franca Sozzani was named Goodwill Ambassador for Fashion 4 Development, "a global campaign, which through its fashion-based initiatives, seeks to combat the United Nation's wider issues - from poverty to gender inequality". Franca Sozzani recently visited West Africa and stopped in Ghana to meet with the countries borgeoning African fashion industry's Who's Who. Her and Roberto Cavalli also made a pit stop in Nigeria to promote the “Every Woman Every Child Africa” effort to engage “a collective of high-level change-actors in Nigerian fashion, art, culture, design and retail for the global startegy for Women’s and Children’s Health.“

Dangerously Gorgeous Curves Ahead

“I hate the term plus-size and don’t consider myself “plus-size”. As for my body type, I wished that people described me as well-proportioned and curvy".

via vogue.it

“It doesn’t matter what shape you have or the size you wear, whether you’re skinny or curvy, tall or short. The important thing is to be happy, to feel comfortable in your own skin. I always say it because I would have never gotten here if I hadn’t had confidence in myself. I’ve always taken lots of care of myself, what a woman wears is the distinct image of how she feels inside and what she wants to communicate to the outside world. If you have confidence in yourself and if you’re happy, it doesn’t matter what others think."

-Marquita Pring