{"id":21240,"date":"2016-01-03T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allthingsankara.com\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2016-01-03T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T17:35:01","slug":"fashion-week-ankara-miami-2016-floridas-premier-african-fashion-week-5th-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/2016\/01\/03\/fashion-week-ankara-miami-2016-floridas-premier-african-fashion-week-5th-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Week: Ankara Miami 2016 &#8211; Florida&#8217;s Premier African Fashion Week &#8211; 5th Year Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara Miami Fashion Week is back!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsankara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fashion-Week-Ankara-Miami-2016-Floridas-Premier-African-Fashion-Week-5th-Year-Anniversary.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion Week Ankara Miami 2016 - Florida's Premier African Fashion Week - 5th Year Anniversary\" width=\"815\" height=\"816\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ankaramiami.com\/\">Ankara Miami<\/a>\u00a0is a South Florida based event-planning company committed to promoting both people and trends within the African Diaspora. Since our establishment in 2011, our events have ranged from producing Florida&#8217;s first and largest African-inspired runway production (also entitled &#8220;Ankara Miami&#8221;) to local community service initiatives, beauty\/natural hair expos, professional networking mixers, grand openings\/product launches, and other public and private events.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<strong><em>Ankara Miami &#8211; Florida&#8217;s Premier African Fashion Week<\/em><\/strong>, our annual series of fashion industry related and red carpet events, we&#8217;ve been grateful to have worked closely with notable corporate and culturally-based brands (ex. Macy&#8217;s, Arik Air, Inglot Cosmetics, Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau, Toyota of North Miami, Diaspora Arts Coalition, Natural Trendsetters Salon, Fela! On Broadway) as well as local and international media (HOT 105, Huffington Post Miami, Black Enterprise, Essence, Cool FM &#8211; Nigeria, Complete Fashion &#8211; Nigeria, Zen Magazine &#8211; Nigeria, Tropics Magazine &#8211; South Africa). We&#8217;ve also had designer and vendor participation from throughout the United States and as far as Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Paris.<\/p>\n<p>From women and menswear, to accessories and home decor, the rise of African and African-inspired trends is the subject of much inspiration to the Western fashion world. What has kept African print modern and edgy is the contemporary interpretation and its acceptance by celebrities, magazines, social media, and most importantly, consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of events:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1820687028\">Friday, February 5<\/span> &#8211; Afropolitan Miami feat. Ankara Miami 2016 Preview Showcase<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-term=\"goog_1820687029\">Saturday, February 13<\/span> &#8211; Macy&#8217;s Black History Month feat. Ankara Miami 2016 Preview Showcase (to be confirmed)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1820687030\">Thursday, February 18<\/span> &#8211; VIP Meet &amp; Greet<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1820687031\">Friday<\/span>, Februrary 19 &#8211; Emerging Designers Runway Showcase<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1820687032\">Saturday, February 20<\/span> &#8211; Established Designers Runway Showcase<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1820687033\">Sunday, February 21<\/span> &#8211; Ankara Delights Pop-Up Shop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>2016 Event Deck &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/db.tt\/5anIlzzP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/db.tt\/5anIlzzP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event Recaps:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2015 Post Release &#8211;\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QKy9zD\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QKy9zD<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>2015 Recap &#8211;\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/141823074\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/141823074<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(<span data-term=\"goog_1820687034\">3:44<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>2014 Macy&#8217;s Recap &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/L677bqPRG4A\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/L677bqPRG4A<\/a>\u00a0(<span data-term=\"goog_1820687035\">2:50<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration\/Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ankarafashionweekmiami.com\/\">www.AnkaraFashionWeekMiami.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media:<\/strong> @AnkaraMiami | #AnkaraMiami | #AnkaraMiami2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Credits (via Instagram)<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Event Exec Producer: @EvelynO11 of @AnkaraMiami<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo credit: @dr.stew of @ElysianArts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hair: @naturaltrendsetters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MUA: @kerieannlondon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Set design: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramatikadsigns.com\/\">www.DramatikaDSigns.com<\/a> by\u00a0Ms. Betty Wright\u00a0(Grammy-Award winning recording artist)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Models: @amethystlinda (blue @wamuirucouture dress), @adoch (blond w\/ @wamuirucouture dress), @1coollana (blk @wamuirucouture jkt), @letzrage (blk @jzofashion_ng menswear), @hasani81_ (wht @jzofashion_ng menswear)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Creative direction: @iammariesandra &amp; @2chixwithacamera<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Graphic design: @84Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara Miami Fashion Week is back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4780,"featured_media":8061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,200],"tags":[251,207],"class_list":["post-21240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fashion","tag-fashion-week","tag-womenswear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsankara.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}