Nairobi farce week

Models on the runway during the 2014 FAFA event in Nairobi. Shows like FAFA always feel steeped more in the glitz and glamour of creative presentations rather than money in the bank of the designers. (Photo:Elvis Ogina/Standard)

There is fashion week and then there is a farce week. Sadly, the latter represents Nairobi’s pass off for a fashion week.

Whereas for most of last week New York was bubbling with a money-spinning boost to the city’s economic rhythm, thanks to the biannual New York Fashion Week, our own charade of a similar event is so mediocre, it does not even deserve a footnote in the history of piffle.