The 2025 Black Carpet Awards were held at the Teatro Manzoni theatre during Milan Fashion Week.

At Milan Fashion Week, the Afro Fashion Association (AFA) staged one of the season’s most essential events on Wednesday evening, bringing together leading BIPOC fashion creatives for the Black Carpet Awards. AFA founder Michelle Francine Ngonmo delivered an emotional speech about the event – now in its third year – to a packed house at Teatro Manzoni, a theatre in the heart of Milan’s fashion district.

“I know what it is to have no strength to continue to dream because you think you don’t belong to some places,” she said, taking the stage in a flowing white look by Cameroonian designer Azambou Cybelle. She explained that she created the AFA and the awards because “it reminds us that despite

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