In an extraordinary milestone for the global fashion industry, Zimbabwe will become the first African nation to host the prestigious World Fashion Week® 2026. This sustainable event will take place at the breathtaking Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the largest waterfall in the world, to promote sustainable global fashion practices.
Scheduled from April 1st to 5th, 2025, World Fashion Week® Zimbabwe 2025/26 will feature a series of fashion shows designed to amplify the messages of sustainability and cultural preservation. The event aspires to strengthen ties between nations, utilizing fashion as a bridge to promote sustainability, cultural understanding, and socioeconomic development. With the global campaign, themed "Give Your Light to the World – Africa is Now," aims to spotlight sustainable fashion, while focusing on women's and children's empowerment across Africa.
The exclusive event will present World Fashion Week Zimbabwe 2026, celebrating Ivhu Tribe international success, featuring an iconic photo shoot with renowned celebrity photographer Robbie Merritt, presswire journalist for Fox, CNBC, NBC and Newswire, capturing top models and designers from five continents, showcasing sustainable designs, fostering international collaboration, environmental practice and social commitment. The event will raise funds to provide with Air to Water Generators—a life-saving initiative to provide safe drinking water to children in Zimbabwe's tribal areas. Every day, over 3,000 children in Africa lose their lives due to the lack of clean water.
Give Your Light to the World - Africa Now
Leading Zimbabwean fashion brand IVHU TRIBE is set to officially represent Zimbabwe during the World Fashion Week / Exhibition 2024/25 global events, supporting WFE's global campaign "Give Your Light to the World - Africa is Now”.
Ivhu Tribe is an African brand that loves to network, educate, and create, believing in the importance of maintaining cultural diversity in the face of globalization. Having realized that costumes play a symbolic role in the preservation of values and cultural heritage. Jasper Mandizera, a Zimbawean fashion and epic movie aficionado founded the Ivhu Tribe band in 2023.
Ivhu Tribe brand offers an assortment of extravaganza and modern styles. The lion's share of their designs involves elements that define the face of their native land with a tribal print edge. "Ivhu" is a shona word for land or soil, having accepted that even though we frolic in the beauty of the soil's simplicity. The soil gives life in the same way the brand strives to give a refreshing, newborn breath of life to the African contemporary fashion industry.
The main objective is to enhance the local and external, appreciation for ethnic and cultural heritage to develop a fresh perspective on African fashion, with a focus on achieving the largest market share in Sub-Saharan Africa for contemporary African wear.
The Zimbabwean pearl, Supermodel Charlotte Muziri is an inspirational individual who has achieved the significant milestone of becoming a first-generation graduate. A Town Planner and published academic author. Alongside her professional pursuits, she is a dedicated mentor and actively advocates for ending child poverty. she strives to ignite self-belief in individuals, firmly believing that even the most economically disadvantaged can achieve remarkable transformations in their lives.
Help Us Bring Clean and Safe Water to Zimbabwe & Africa’s Most Vulnerable Communities
Every day, millions of children in Africa face the harsh reality of contaminated water sources, which lead to preventable diseases and even death. In Zimbabwe, the situation is dire: unsafe water, drought, and a lack of access to clean, drinkable water are causing irreversible harm to communities—especially children.
But there’s hope. Together, we can bring a sustainable solution that saves lives and transforms communities.
Air to Water generators is a life-changing innovation that harnesses the power of the atmosphere to create pure, drinkable water. The Air Water units extract moisture from the air, turning it into clean, safe water for drinking, cooking, and sanitation.
This breakthrough technology is more than just an invention—it's a lifeline.
In Zimbabwe and many parts of Africa, water shortages and contamination are devastating, especially for young children. Every year, millions of children under the age of five die from preventable water-related diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid.
AirWater’s solution can reduce these numbers dramatically by providing clean water directly from the air, turning a climate challenge into a life-saving opportunity.
We need your help to bring AirWater units to Zimbabwe and other African nations. Your contribution will provide:
Your donation can directly fund the installation of Air Water units in Zimbabwe and other African nations. Whether it’s a single unit or a contribution toward a larger project, every dollar counts.
One Drop, One Life
We are looking for corporate sponsors, NGOs, and community leaders to join us in this life-changing mission. Together, we can reach more communities and make an even bigger impact.
By supporting this campaign, you are not just donating—you are creating a ripple effect of positive change that will be felt for generations to come.
Here’s how your donation can change lives:
“Before AirWater, we had to walk miles to fetch water, and it was unsafe. Now, we have clean water right here from the air we breath, and our children are healthier. We no longer fear the diseases that once took so many lives.” – A mother from a village in Zimbabwe
At WFE we are focused in how to make global fashion green and sustainable. Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emissions, dries up water sources, and pollutes rivers and streams. What's more, 85% of all textiles go to the dump each year (UNECE, 2018), and washing some types of clothes sends significant amount of micro-plastics into the ocean. Global fashion also consumes 93 billion metric tons of clean water each year, about half of what Americans drink annually.
Cotton is an especially thirsty crop. For example, one kilogram of cotton used to produce a pair of jeans can consume 7,500 to 10,000 liters of water—the amount a person would drink over 10 years. Cotton production also requires pesticides and insecticides, which pollute the soil; runoff from fertilized cotton fields carry the excess nutrients to water bodies, causing eutrophication and algal blooms.
The dyeing process for fabrics, which uses toxic chemicals, is responsible for 17 to 20 percent of global industrial water pollution.
To feed the fashion industry’s need for wood pulp to make fabrics like rayon, viscose and other fabrics, 70 million tons of trees are cut down each year. That number is expected to double by 2034, speeding deforestation in some of the world’s endangered forests.
The fashion industry produces 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 each year, according to a MacArthur Foundation study. In 2018, it resulted in more greenhouse gas emissions than the carbon emission produced by France, Germany and the UK all together. Polyester, which is actually plastic made from fossil fuels, is used for about 65 percent of all clothing, and consumes 70 million barrels of oil each year. In addition, the fashion industry uses large amounts of fossil fuel-based plastic for packaging and hangers.
Less than one percent of clothing is recycled to make new clothes. The fibers in clothing are polymers, long chains of chemically linked molecules. Washing and wearing clothing shortens and weaken these polymers, so by the time a garment is discarded, the polymers are too short to turn into a strong new fabric. In addition, most of today’s textile-to-textile recycling technologies cannot separate out dyes, contaminants, or even a combination of fabrics such as polyester and cotton.
As a result, over 53 million metric tons of discarded clothing are incinerated or go to landfills each year. If sent to a landfill, clothes made from natural fabrics like cotton and linen may degrade in Exhibitions to months, but synthetic fabrics can take up to 200 years to break down. And as they do, they produce methane, a powerful global warming greenhouse gas.
Micro-plastics are almost everywhere in today's life, harm marine life and biodiversity. Micro-plastics have already been found in our food, water and air—one study found that Americans eat 74,000 micro-plastic particles each year. And while there is growing concern about this, the risks to human health are still not well understood.
Of the 75 million factory workers around the world, it’s estimated that only 2% earn a living wage. To keep brands from moving to another country or region with lower costs, factories limit wages and are disinclined to spend money to improve working conditions. Moreover, workers often live in areas with waterways polluted by the chemicals from textile dyeing.
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