Lookslike Avido

09/10/2025

Welcome Ashley. Looking forward to meet you in Person Next week :)

Et stort velkommen til Ashley!

Fra 13. oktober tiltræder Ashley White som Dansk Kulturinstituts nye projektkoordinator i Kenya.

Ashley kommer fra en stilling som projektleder ved Institut for Menneskerettigheder, hvor hun bl.a. har haft ansvar for EU- og Danida-finansierede programmer i Sahel-regionen.

Ashleys store erfaring vil helt sikkert komme hende til gode, for hun får bogstaveligt talt en flyvende start, når hun på sin første arbejdsdag rejser til Sydafrika for at repræsentere Dansk Kulturinstitut ved et regionalt møde i kulturnetværket EUNIC - EU National Institutes for Culture– sammenslutningen af europæiske kulturinstitutter. Kort efter går turen videre til Nairobi, hvor hun skal møde vores samarbejdspartnere og påbegynde arbejdet med nye projekter.

Et af vores centrale samarbejder er med modedesigner og den sociale entreprenør David Avido og hans organisation "Lookslike Avido", der bl.a. står bag Kibera Fashion Week – en årlig modebegivenhed i et af Nairobis mest udsatte kvarterer, hvor kreativitet, fællesskab, bæredygtig mode og social udvikling går hånd i hånd.

”Kulturel udveksling er en vej til at skabe gensidig forståelse og bygge bro, der styrker dialog og respekt mellem mennesker. Jeg ser et stort potentiale i mødet mellem Kenyas levende ungdoms- og kunstscene og Danmarks dynamiske kulturlandskab. Det er i disse udvekslinger – når kunst, historier og idéer krydser grænser – at vi finder ikke blot fælles grundlag, men også nye måder at forestille os, hvad vi kan skabe sammen," udtaler Ashley om sin nye stilling. Hun suppleres af vores direktør Camilla Mordhorst, som siger følgende om ansættelsen af Ashley White:

”Ansættelsen af Ashley White kommer på et afgørende tidspunkt, hvor vi udvider vores aktiviteter i Østafrika. Med Ashleys indgående erfaring og indsigt fra langsigtede og omfattende internationale projekter vil vi tage fat i den store gensidige interesse, der er for at skabe nye møder og samarbejder, der kan styrke vores forbindelser og den kulturelle udveksling mellem Danmark og de afrikanske lande.”

Dejligt at få dig med ombord, Ashley!

Læs mere om vores nye kollega her: https://lnkd.in/dEfs3Xkh

📷 Rasmus Romulus Palludan, Dansk Kulturinstitut

11/08/2025

21/10/2024

The vibration of being who you are, doing what you love and wearing what you want is Magnetic.

Despite .avido and were not smiling in the picture the Garments was doing it for them 😁😅

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📸 .nathan

16/04/2024

11/02/2024

Some outfits do remind you of how royal you are.
Anyway I can’t resist the charm of this captivating purple shade

Handmade from Kibera.
Order yours If you feels like it.






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15/11/2023

I got inspired the other day to match up an outfit with the Denim Flip Bag that my hearing impaired Women at made in collaboration during the launch of Phantom V Flip phone.

You know me already. I just had to match it up also with my neck pillow while stepping out Deh to Di worl’

We outside!

Swipe right and see me 500kg bags as always lol 😂
It’s that time of the Month Again.

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17/09/2023

Save it and mark it in the calender

Save the date.

17/09/2023

Great things comes from places least expected

The Kibera Fashion Week is not your typical fashion week, but comprises a year-long programme to fundamentally change the power dynamics and narratives in the fashion industry, labelling itself a fashion week with the ambition to reinvent the format.

Showcasing the talent of creatives from Kibera and sharing their insights with audiences in Kenya and the EU, the project wants to build a new ethical and sustainable fashion industry.

Rooting this project in Kibera confronts the neo-colonial realities of the fashion industry by learning from a community that is faced with the abundance of textile waste exported by European countries and creating a new dialogue around the consequences of unsustainable consumption.

Through this dialogue a movement can start of change, impacting both consumers and designers in Kenya and abroad by respecting the skills and insights of local communities.

While Kibera is often portrayed as a place of hopelessness in need of help and so-called “development aid”, it is in fact a diverse metropolis, booming with creativity and constantly evolving and innovating.

The project firmly believes that the world can learn a lot from the people of Kibera and that they possess the skills to become pioneers in a sustainable and ethical creative industry.

Kibera Fashion Week will become a platform for the community to redefine fashion, share new methods for sustainability and bring together stakeholders from around the world to challenge unethical and exploitative consumption.

The project is initiated by David Avido (Lookslike Avido / Avido Foundation) in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Nairobi Design Week, Maasai Mbili and EUNIC Kenya. The project is funded as part of the European Spaces of Culture.

"Kibera Fashion week created collaboration among artists in Kibera, and that is one of the things I needed as an artist, to work with other industry makers"

Save the date. Kibera Fashion Week

07/09/2023

Lookslikeavido Handmade Silk Kimono and it’s rhyming shorts customed for







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03/08/2023

The Joy of dressing is an Art.

We just thought of dressing up and stepping out to go watch Pato Banton perform his Go Patto song 😂😆

was like I don’t want to wear what Fashion designers tell people to wear. I want to wear what they wear 😂😂😆

I said “Say no more 😄😄”







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