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What Dakar Built

Ten models stand along a fishing pirogue painted with the words Dakar Fashion Week, on grey open water under an overcast sky.
Models on a pirogue off Ngor Island, December 2025. Photography by Alex Gandaho.

Adama Paris has spent a quarter of a century taking Dakar Fashion Week out of rooms. The Medina show runs on a street closed for the night. It is free, there is no list, and residents watch from doorways and from the ledges of their own roofs while models pass close enough to touch. There […]

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