Chimanye: Zim’s global style icon

Zimbabwe’s global style icon, Joyce Chimanye (40), had to fight the negative tag attached to a career in fashion and design to become what she is today.

Chimanye has designed a wide range of clothing items and dressed Zimbabwe’s top models and personalities as well as the continent’s leading actors, business leaders, media personalities and singers.

She said her designs, which are chic and cosmopolitan, are inspired by her worldview, which is essentially African.

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