Inside Anouri Original: The Brand Reviving Moroccan Craft in Modern Fashion
There’s something electric about watching a designer discover their voice. In Mohamed Youss’s case, that moment came not in a Parisian atelier or New York showroom, but in the souks of Taroudant, sketching his first burlap jacket and watching it sell within five minutes of posting to Instagram. That raw hunger—the kind that drives you […]
The Quiet Power of Yagazie Emezi’s New Visual Language
Yagazie Emezi has never fit into one frame. A decade ago, she emerged as one of Nigeria’s most vital photojournalists. Today, her work moves between lens and loom, documenting African realities while threading ancestral narratives into textile art. Political yet intimate, her practice resists binaries of past and present, seen and unseen, reportage and ritual. […]
TEMESGEN: A Language of Fabric, A Feeling of Home
In the heart of Stockholm, thousands of miles from the red earth and golden light of Addis Ababa, a quiet revolution in fashion is unfolding. TEMESGEN is not just a clothing brand; it is a cultural bridge, a narrative archive, a homecoming stitched in cotton, wool, and memory. Founded in 2024 by Jimmie Temesgen Sandberg […]
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 […]
Eloghosa Osunde’s Necessary Fiction Is a Cultural Earthquake
“Necessary Fiction is coming.” Eloghosa Osunde doesn’t say this like a casual heads-up. She says it like a prophecy. Like something already in motion. When she speaks about her second novel, her voice carries the same urgency as the text itself—a novel that refuses to sit quietly on a shelf. Osunde’s debut, Vagabonds!, shook tables […]
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 […]
Lafalaise Dion on Styling Guzangs’ ‘Helmet of Heritage’ Cover with Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah
Lafalaise Dion is a force—an artist whose work transcends fashion. Her hands don’t just style; they conjure altars of memory and defiance, weaving stories through fabric and cowrie shells. When Guzangs, the bold voice of African fashion, set out to create its debut cover, “Helmet of Heritage,” featuring NFL star Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah in Tamale, Ghana, […]
Data Oruwari Channels Ancestral Wisdom Through Art and Sound
In a world seduced by speed, surface, and spectacle, Data Oruwari moves like an ancestral drumbeat — steady, sacred, and impossible to ignore. Known as The Ancestors’ Scribe, she is not merely a visual artist, but a sound alchemist, a spiritual technologist, and a living archive of African ancestral cosmology. Through glyphs etched in ink […]
WORN OUT: The True Cost of Your Donated Clothes
Part I — The History of a Heap Kantamanto doesn’t sleep. It breathes, wheezes, and heaves under the weight of foreign fabrics. Bales arrive daily—tightly bound, often soaked in chemical stench or rainwater from cargo ships—marked “donation” in faded marker. They are not gifts. They are transactions. They are waste. And they are profitable for […]
Footprints in Fashion: THE BLOCC and the Rise of Wearable Art
From a small studio in Lagos, Biodun Ariori is building one of the most compelling voices in contemporary footwear. His label, THE BLOCC (formerly theshoeblocc), crafts shoes that move beyond utility transforming them into sculptural, expressive statements of identity and presence. His work first caught our attention during Guzangs’ debut cover shoot, where he was […]