EMPRESS PRIMY MAKES HISTORY AT THE 3RD BAAZW AWARDS.

 The season has came and gone for the 3rd edition of the BAAzw(Bulawayo Arts Awards) which were hosted in the 2nd capital city of Zimbabwe.

This year the awards' nominees list contained new and old names who are doing well in the industry.

This year 3 prominent and unique fashion brands,from Zimbabwe contested for the Best Fashion Designer's Gong.

However unlike the previous years where the names in the category consisted of male fashion designers only or the category being dominated by male designers. 

This year the category had only 3 female designers these are:

Umakoti by Nkazana,Empress Primy and Thobekile Zondo. 

The winner was Empress Primy who became the 1st woman to win the Best Fashion and Designer gong.

The brand became the 3rd to hold the gong after The Brandroom (Bukhosi and Muzi) who were the first winners of the Best Fashion Designers Award of BAAzw in (2017) while the 2nd edition in 2018 was won by Arakani. 

Fikile Ncube is the founder of the brand Empress Primy. 

She emerged in the fashion world in 2017 and founded her brand a year after. 

The brans mainly specialises on female wear . 

Fikile named the brand in honour of her mother Primrose who she referred as the Queen.

Besides being a fashion designer,Fikile is a former model. 

Pic credit @Mgcininyoni

By Rubaya Tapiwa