Tag: adire

  • Lagos Style: Color, Craft and a City That Dresses Without Apology

    Lagos Style: Color, Craft and a City That Dresses Without Apology

    Lagos does not dress quietly. Nigeria’s largest city is known around the world for its music and film, and, as Vogue put it in a 2025 feature marking 15 years of Lagos Fashion Week, for a formidable style culture that is less widely acknowledged. The streets, the parties and the lines outside the shows are…

  • Adire: The Indigo Cloth of the Yoruba Women Who Made It

    Adire: The Indigo Cloth of the Yoruba Women Who Made It

    Blue and white, tied, stitched, stenciled or painted by hand, adire is one of West Africa’s great design traditions. Here is how it is made and why it still matters.