In recent years, African designers have found support from international celebrities including Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Naomi Campbell. Now a growing number of the continent’s fashion brands are ...

Mobos Fashion, the Nigerian fashion powerhouse beloved for its elegant silhouettes and unapologetic celebration of African ...

In the fall of 2024, three major exhibitions dedicated to African fashion history opened on the East Coast. The catalyst was Dr. Christine Checinska's seminal 2022 “Africa Fashion” exhibit in London’s ...

Hailing from Hammanskraal, Amukelani Rikhotso’s love for fashion was inspired by her family. Despite being a geologist ...

In recent years, African fashion has experienced a meteoric rise on the international scene. Talented designers, inspired by a rich heritage and deeply rooted traditions, are reinventing fashion codes ...

Introduction : fashion matters -- Indigenous fashion : embroidery and innovation in Mali -- Nubia in Paris : African style in French fashion -- Reinventing local forms : African fashion, indigenous ...

You’ve probably heard about the weather at Paris Fashion Week. Still, beneath the neoclassical colonnades of the Palais Brongniart, not even the slate gray skies and lashings of rain could dampen the ...

Beauty and ingenuity can be found around every corner of a new fashion exhibition in Chicago. One mannequin wears a stunning, contemporary piece fashioned primarily from cowrie shells. Another models ...

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie receives funding from the Foundation Omou Dilly and DANIDA. Sustainable fashion means clothes being produced and consumed in ways that are socially responsible. But the ...

, the Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum , offers us a brief overview of fashion in Africa through a unique exhibition ...