The Plus Size Fashion Event Of The Year Is Here

Mark your calendars; 6th December is the day when Plus-size Fashion Week Festival Kampala is coming to your feed.

Plus-size Fashion Week Festival Kampala is a subsidiary of ‘The Figure Bombshell’: a movement and revolution which emerged in 2016 on social-media and has been for the past 3 years active on social-media particularly Instagram.

‘The Figure Bombshell’ name was created as a positive way to identify curvy & plus-size women in Uganda, Africa and beyond. ‘’I wanted a name that was unique and beyond the surface of beauty. Bearing in mind that women The Figure Bombshell associates with are beyond their physical appearances and have more to offer society than just curves or looks’’, states Doreen Faith, creator & founder.

The campaign is created to empower, educate and encourage plus-size women in Uganda and beyond to be body-confident and feel good about themselves and know that clothes on the catwalk don’t just look good on smaller people only, plus-size women can also be models and look good in the clothes showcased on the catwalks. The modelling world and high-end fashion market particularly from the west (London, Paris, New York) think that clothes still look better on small models, who at times portray an unhealthy image.

Plus-size Fashion Week Festival Kampala, set to happen at Skyz Hotel, Naguru, is created to pioneer a plus-size market within the Uganda fashion industry with the mission to promote Uganda design talent locally and expose it to the international market, one of the ways to grow and develop the Uganda fashion industry. The festival, running from 9AM to 8PM is created to unit fashion designers together as well as those in those in the arts industry such as; jewellery, hair, beauty and makeup for a one day event experience. At a fee of only 100,000 shillings, you’ll be able to take part in the biggest fashion festival of the year.

For more info visit:www.Instagram.com/psfwfestkla or email: thefigurebombshell@gmail.com   

Change starts from somewhere and The Figure Bombshell movement has already sparked change within the fashion and beauty fraternities in Uganda. From fashion awards such as (ASFAs) using plus-size models to showcase clothes on the catwalks at their 2018 award show to curvy beauty pageants (Miss Curvy) being created to girls and women proudly embracing themselves as plus-size, something which they weren’t doing before. Women who follow The Figure Bombshell on Instagram say that the campaign has made them feel inclusive.

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