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Nisha Kanabar
CEO, Industrie Africa


Nisha Kanabar is a curator and storyteller; and the founder of Industrie Africa, the global marketplace for African luxury fashion.
A Tanzanian of Indian origin, Kanabar graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York and went on to forge a career in luxury fashion and publishing. With over a decade of experience at renowned industry names, she held formative positions at the editorial and commercial departments of American Vogue, Vogue India, and Style.com in the Middle East (now Vogue Arabia).
Her experience across international markets fueled a desire to channel her work into her home continent’s contemporary and luxury designer market, with a special focus on diversity, digitization and storytelling.
Agenda
Breakout 1
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Saturday
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9:00 am
Aldrich 112
Weaving the Future: Creating Africa’s Fashion Blueprint from Within
African fashion thrives locally but struggles globally. This panel explores a resilient, uniquely African ecosystem beyond Western norms