“Africa is becoming a viable landscape for fashion manufacturing and its doors are open for business.”
Jacqueline Brown has vast experience in the global fashion industry (working for brands and retailers such as Puma, C&A, Russell Athletic, Animal, Fila, Wilson) living and working in 4 countries over 4 continents. As a professional Fashion Designer, Jacqueline Brown birthed Africa Fashion Guide, the only sourcing consultancy and information based platform for African fashion, as a tool to educate, inform and retune the perceptions of Africa's fashion and textile industry - a vehicle she sees for trade and development. She is the author of the book Fashion Africa and her new book Fashion Cannot Be Made in Africa is published in 2020.