The Value Problem: What a Dress Really Costs
Two women stood side by side at a worktable in Lisa Folawiyo’s Lagos studio, threading beads onto a dress from the upcoming collection
The Value Chain: From Commodity to Cultural Capital
For generations, Africa exported its wealth in raw form while others captured the margins.
Twenty Years of Mozambique Fashion Week: The Cherry Before the Cake
Each edition of Mozambique Fashion Week opens with a poem. Written by Mozambican poet and artist Sonia Sultuane, it calls attention
Africa Textile Talks 2025: Weaving Circularity, Wool, and Culture Into the Future of Fashion
“The Cape once dressed a nation. Now it’s being dressed by the rest of the world.” — Ilse Menck, Menck Clothing That line, delivered in Cape Town, set the tone for Africa Textile Talks 2025 (ATT). Organised by sustainability platform Twyg, ATT has grown into one of the continent’s most important gatherings on fashion, textiles, […]
What Makes a Brand African? Rethinking Made in Africa Fashion
While African fashion has reached greater heights—the question of what makes a brand “African” resists easy answers. It can’t be answered through surface-level aesthetics or generic motifs, but instead, it demands a deeper interrogation of history, structure, and power. At first glance, one might say an African brand is one founded or designed by an […]