MYSTICAL BREAKFAST SHOW
The highly anticipated Mystical Breakfast Show took place on 27th October, 2023 at Annietta’s Garden. The event brought together fashion enthusiasts and industry professionals for an engaging and informative morning of discussions. The Breakfast show featured esteemed guest speakers from the fashion industry who shared their insights, experiences and expertise with graduates of Dreams College of Creative Arts. Topics ranged from emerging trends to sustainable fashion practices, inspiring the graduates to think critically and creatively about the future of fashion designs.
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Aisha Ayensu, a Ghanaian award-winning fashion designer who is known to have designed outfits and stage costumes for Beyonce, Genevieve Nnaji, Jackie Appiah to mention a few. She is the founder and creative director of Christie Brown, a Ghanaian fashion house. Aisha was one of the guest speakers at the Breakfast Show. Speaking to the graduates, Aisha expressed vital points to consider if they want to be successful in the fashion industry. She mentioned that, they should be unique, think global and most importantly find their niche. She further urged them to attach themselves with other fashion houses to gain experience before starting their own business. ‘’Fashion design is not only about stitching a garment, there are other aspects or departments in fashion design that one could explore and still be successful without having to thread the needle or stitch a garment’’, she said.
Another inspiring guest speaker at the show was Derrick Vormawor, an outstanding entrepreneur currently based in Germany, the CEO and lead consultant of Platinum Africa Solutions Limited. Derrick started his conversation with the graduates on entrepreneurship. Being the consultant behind several successful startups and businesses in Ghana like Black and Phamous Clothing, My Story Magazine, PGEES kitchen among others, he advised that they can be successful if they follow business principles and develop the right attitude to it. Some of which is to put in business structures and know who to employ. He shared a very inspiring story of how he started from his bedroom with no employee which goes on to affirm that, you do not have to necessarily get well-structured edifice before starting up a business. To a greater extent, Derrick stressed on effectiveness and merits of data in a business. He encouraged the graduates to make good use of data. ‘’Irrespective of the size of your business, you should make effort to retrieve and interpret data so as to help understand and make changes where necessary’’, he added.
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Nuel Bans, a fashion writer and founder of Debonair Afrik was the third and final guest speaker at the Mystical Breakfast Show. Nuel had a very simple yet insightful message to the graduates of Dreams College of Creative Arts. His message was ‘’share your story’’. He emphasized that, they can go far if their stories reach the right people and the only way to achieve that is to share them. After his submission, Dr. Clement Asemnyra, founder of Dreams College of Creative Arts and moderator for the Mystical Breakfast Show asked a few questions and allowed graduates to ask questions as well.
Written by; Derrick Kegeri
