The Paris Fashion Week women’s calendar has been released — with African talent front and center.

Nigerian designer Kenneth Ize will make his Paris runway debut on Feb. 24, kicking off a week which also has South African designer and LVMH Prize winner Thebe Magugu on the presentation schedule.

The fashion world is abuzz that Naomi Campbell might once again lend her support to the Lagos based Ize, who tapped her to appear during his Arise Fashion Week runway show in April.

For that outing, he also secured model /performer Alton Mason — the first black model to walk for Chanel who has since starred in a Louis Vuitton campaign and performed on Virgil Abloh’s Vuitton runway last year.

Ize, who launched in 2016 with menswear, now designs dual gender collections. The move came after 70% of his men’s pieces were actually being bought by women.

The designer grew up between Vienna and Lagos, where he supports the local economy using local weavers to make the traditional Aso Oke textile that features strongly in his clothes. He studied in Vienna and interned in New York with Bono and Ali Hewson’s label Edun which helped promote trade with Africa.

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