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Presidential Runway: What Ghana's First Black Star Fashion Week Is Really Building
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Presidential Runway: What Ghana's First Black Star Fashion Week Is Really Building

A maiden event in Akosombo honored seven pioneers and made one argument explicit: fashion is an economic sector, not a hobby.

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Runway Model Walk — Why Runway Models Walk the Way They Do: The Anatomy of the Catwalk Stride

Pace, posture, and the pause at the end of the platform are not affectations. They are engineering.

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The Front Row File

Shows, seats, and the business behind them.

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The City Desk

Bolts of fabric and a worktable in an empty sample room
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How the Garment District actually works, block by block

The Garment District — roughly West 35th to West 41st Streets, Broadway to Ninth Avenue — still concentrates hundreds of apparel businesses within walking distance of one another: patternmakers, sample rooms, button stores, fabric houses, and cut-and-sew shops, an arrangement the city's own planning studies describe as the densest apparel production district in the country.

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