Get ready to be dazzled, because high fashion with a traditional African flair has landed in the neighborhood of Crown Heights. Burkindy, a 45-year-old jewelry designer originally from Burkina Faso, ...

Centuries of cultural erasure and a historical lack of capital account for the underrepresentation of African fashion in mainstream media, but Farai Simoyi is on course to correct that. The Zimbabwean ...

At the Brooklyn Museum, an electrifying new exhibition establishes Africa as a true fashion capital, bursting with imagination, ingenuity, and its own aesthetic heritage. “African Fashion” showcases ...

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 ...

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 ...

As much as I anticipated the Africa Fashion exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, I was skeptical. How could any one show address the sartorial history of an entire continent? Ambitious in scope but ...

Across from the Governor’s Square Mall, nested in a lineup of other small locally owned shops, lies a vibrant little gem known as Tokun, an African Fashion Boutique. For the past 10 years, Tokun has ...

When Koya Nyangi moved to Colorado in 2018, she experienced culture shock, she said, in part because she noticed that people don’t really dress up here. “I'm used to walking around and being like, ‘Oh ...

Demeatria Boccella and her business partner, Darnell McLaurin, are spotlighting the beauty of the African diaspora in Pittsburgh one event at a time. Their Africanism Gala, held at Ice House Studios ...

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