Dakar Coast
Dakar Coast is a fashion series made across a single day on the Senegalese coast by Paris-based art director and stylist Romain Antonini and photographer Khaled Fhemy Mamah, with model Pape Diouf. It takes the ordinary traffic of that coastline and dresses it: the fishermen and their pirogues, the roasted peanut seller, the beignet seller, […]
Dakar Sound Project
Dakar Sound Project is a photo series by photographer Khaled Fhemy Mamah and stylist Hélène Redolfi — a Dakaroise stroll that pays tribute to African music, past and present, and the influences that still resonate in the city’s streets. The series is a dialogue between music and clothing: costume as scene, the wardrobe as show. […]
WORN OUT — Part III: Return to Sender
How African Designers Are Reclaiming Waste and Rewriting Fashion’s Future The bales arrive as they always have — compressed, labeled, shipped across oceans like cargo without conscience. They still overwhelm ports and markets, a visible symptom of a system that hasn’t stopped. But something has shifted in how they’re received. Across Accra, Cairo, Dakar, workshops […]
Romzy Studio One Year Later: The Rise of an Iconic African Fashion Brand
In the ever-shifting tide of African fashion where voices rise, fall, and are too often silenced before they fully bloom, Romzy Studio has become a steady current. Not loud, but deeply rooted. Not formulaic, but unmistakable. One year after launching the Skinprint collection, Roméo Moukagny isn’t chasing applause. He’s cultivating a legacy. And that legacy […]
Dakar Sound Project: How Senegal’s Youth Are Remixing Fashion, Music, and Memory
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 […]
Dakar Fashion Week 2024: Where African Creativity Meets Global Glamour
Dakar Fashion Week 2024 kicked off in grand style at the Turkish Embassy in Dakar, an elegant venue that set the stage for a celebration of African creativity and global collaboration. The embassy’s sophisticated setting offered a perfect backdrop as designers, models, and fashion enthusiasts gathered to honor the artistry and innovation that defines African […]