Afua Biney and Steve French – are among 11 other young designers from the world to benefit from the Gucci Design Fellowship Program

As part of Gucci’s diversity and inclusion initiative, the luxury brand has created The Design Fellowship Program to promote cultural exchange between designers coming from different backgrounds.

Launched in March of 2019, Gucci’s fellowship is meant to offer opportunities to underrepresented groups of talent worldwide from Ghana to Mexico.

It is meant to offer opportunities to underrepresented groups of talents in partnership with 10 fashion schools in 10 countries, including Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, China, Japan, Korea, Dubai, USA and Mexico.

Afua Biney (Photo credit: Twitter Yaw Biney)
Afua Biney (Photo credit: Twitter Yaw Biney)

Five finalists for each school across different product categories were selected for a total of 50 finalists.

They were invited for a week to discover Gucci in Rome and Florence and this was an opportunity for Gucci’s design team to meet directly with them.

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