Dakar Sound Project: How Senegal’s Youth Are Remixing Fashion, Music, and Memory

Two men in vibrant, stylish West African streetwear posing with a trumpet in a sunlit Dakar alleyway. One man wears a mustard yellow patterned suit while the other is in a light-colored outfit with a bold orange patterned wrap, capturing the fusion of jazz music and contemporary Senegalese fashion.

Photographer Khaled Fhemy Mamah and stylist Hélène Redolfi created Dakar Sound Project to document how the city’s music culture shows up in what people wear. Shot at Maison de la Culture Urbaine, Torobee Distribution (a vinyl archive), and across Dakar’s streets, the editorial pairs models with instruments—saxophones, trumpets, synthesizers—and clothes from local designers working in […]