Maryam Hampton explores her West African heritage with AncestryDNA, sharing results from Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Congo, and ...

In the fall of 2024, three major exhibitions dedicated to African fashion history opened on the East Coast. The catalyst was Dr. Christine Checinska's seminal 2022 “Africa Fashion” exhibit in London’s ...

In recent years, African designers have found support from international celebrities including Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Naomi Campbell. Now a growing number of the continent’s fashion brands are ...

Introduction : fashion matters -- Indigenous fashion : embroidery and innovation in Mali -- Nubia in Paris : African style in French fashion -- Reinventing local forms : African fashion, indigenous ...

Kwaku Bediako Oduro is a Ghanaian fashion designer and the creative director of the fashion brand Chocolate Clothing, also known as Chocolate Clothes Global. He is known for his Afrocentric designs ...

In recent years, African fashion has experienced a meteoric rise on the international scene. Talented designers, inspired by a rich heritage and deeply rooted traditions, are reinventing fashion codes ...

You’ve probably heard about the weather at Paris Fashion Week. Still, beneath the neoclassical colonnades of the Palais Brongniart, not even the slate gray skies and lashings of rain could dampen the ...

Beauty and ingenuity can be found around every corner of a new fashion exhibition in Chicago. One mannequin wears a stunning, contemporary piece fashioned primarily from cowrie shells. Another models ...

The color, vibrancy and texture of Africa is on display at the Chicago Field Museum in the exhibit "Africa Fashion." "We're so glad to have it because it's something different than we normally feature ...

Inside the front door of a grand home in Capitol Hill, most of the downstairs is filled with racks of brightly patterned dresses, skirts, and blouses, many made of West African prints with a high ...

The Duchess of Sussex has once again proved she is the queen of royal tour fashion. Not only had she and her husband revealed that they were expecting their first child, but Meghan outdid herself with ...