Could Trash Fashion Save This Nairobi Neighbourhood From Drowning In Discarded Western Clothes?

A runway show in Gikomba, east Africas largest secondhand clothing market, has attempted to highlight the impact of mass clothing imports and offer a solution Antony Njoroge paces back and forth, camera in hand, as people bombard him with questions. What do we do with this? Where should I put it? The lights better over here! Tony, one second please. The film-maker and his co-producer Sally Ngoiri are putting the final touches to an event that they never imagined would actually come to life when they first thought up the idea back in May: the first fashion show to be staged in Gikomba, Nairobi, east Africas largest secondhand clothing market. Show and documentary producers Antony Njoroge, left, and Sally Ngoiri