In this week’s episode of the #BoFPodcast, Vanessa Kingori, Chief Business Officer of Condé Nast Britain speaks at #BoFVOICES 2021. Kingori shared her experience and lessons in leadership with Mory Fontanez, purpose coach and founder of consultancy 822 Group, underscoring the importance of leveraging gut instinct to support data-driven decisions and challenging conformity as the “enemy of progress, creativity and business.”
Listen to the full podcast on businessoffashion.com.
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✨CelebratingThe Rise of Women in Sports ✨
Curated and co-hosted a dinner to mark Women’s History Month, focused on excellersting the excitement around the acceleration of women’s sport with greater funding, business opportunities, empowerment for women and girls, increased coverage, and more lucrative outcomes for sportswomen, and the businesses that support them.
Thank you to my brilliant co-hosts #Malala Yousefi, Darnell Strom & Asser Malik. Thanks too to @celeste_nottinghill for inviting me to bring a group together with carte Blanche.
#WorkingWithPurpose #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSport #FundWomen
📷 @tommybrady7
✨Mother’s *Day (*Month)
UK Mother’s Day felt particularly significant this year (hence the full month extension).
Last weekend, our family chose to lead with gratitude, bringing together incredible mothers and parents who inspire and support us. We gathered at Janie and Jack London’s beautiful new store, their first outside of the US, to celebrate motherhood, community, and the next generation, while also raising awareness and funds for girls’ education through @MalalaFund .
At a time where there is so much struggle in the world, celebrating the power of women, mothers and our children feels especially important.
Through my work with MF, Charles has learnt so much and has been deeply moved to play his part in supporting girls’ access to education globally. As a boy mum, his empathy is my greatest gift this year.
A huge thank you to Janie and Jack London for hosting us; for supporting Malala Fund; and helping us spoil our friends. ❤️
Link in bio if you’d like to donate to @MalalaFund
#MothersDay #RaisingBoys #JanieAndJackLoves
📷 @tommybrady7
48 hours in Stockholm ✨
Old friends
Dinners with the Ambassador
Incredible female founders
Royal Swedish Opera (apparently we DO care…)
Art
Food
Saunas
More food
Vintage shopping
Home (with no luggage….thanks BA)
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#WomensHistoryMonth #Sweden #TheStockholm #LattePappa
📷@jasonlloydevans
🙏🏾@demellierlondon
Brand63Africa announces @vanessakingori as Chair of our Creative Committee.
An internationally respected media executive and cultural leader, Kingori brings decades of experience shaping global conversations across fashion, media and the creative industries.
As Creative Committee Chair, she will work alongside our founder @evaomaghomi to guide the vision of Brand63Africa to support designers of African heritage within the global luxury market.
Through Brand63Africa, the Creative Committee plays a central role in identifying talent, strengthening industry connections and ensuring the platform continues to build meaningful, commercially viable pathways for African luxury on the world stage.
Follow us for more features about the esteemed group.
Creative Committee:
@vanessakingori (Chair)
Michael Ward
@nishakanabarkarimjee
CaSandra Diggs
@anna_getaneh@whereswale@betheshome@vanessamoungar
#Brand63Africa #AfricanLuxury #CreativeEconomy #GlobalLuxury
✨That friend who can do everything! ✨
Photographed by @sabrinaelba as one of the 6 women who inspire her 🥺 for #IWD
Feels a little crazy, as I’m in awe of this woman and her range of passions, businesses, eloquence and kindness.
Honored to be captured along with these 5 other powerhouses (swipe to end)
Happy #internationalwomensmonth all ❤️
Postcards from London Fashion week & BAFTA
With extra special thanks to @mercedesbenzuk and @thechanceryrosewood for helping me connect the dots across a hectic but brilliant week
#LFW #BAFTA
It was a joy to organise and host a cocktail reception to celebrate the first cohort of @brand63africa designers, closing an extraordinary day at #LondonFashionWeek.
Providing them with a moment to drop their shoulders, take in the magnitude of the day after meeting the King and Fashion leaders felt so good! Helping them intentionally expand their networks with industry titans such #EdwardEnninful (@ee72 ) and EICs #KenyaHunt (@elleuk ) and #AndreaThompson (@marieclaireuk ). Crucially doing this at @saleepepelondon , a stones throw away from @harrods where each of there brands will be stocked really made the scale of this project feel even more real.
Thank you to my incredible friends whom agreed at short notice to come out and support this project that means so much to me.
Thanks to @evaomaghomi (B6A’s founder) for hosting with me. Extending networks to high-potential businesses and good people is one of my fave joys.
Congratulations again team Brand63London, Eva, Lulu and our designers.
