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From the Shrine to the Stadium: How Afrobeats Carried Lagos Style to the World
Some fashion stories begin on a runway. This one begins in a nightclub in Lagos, travels through a Broadway theater and a baseball stadium in Queens, and arrives in the front row of a Paris menswear show. Along the way, West African music has become one of the most influential stages for clothes anywhere in…
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Johannesburg, Dressed: Knitwear, Shweshwe and a City of Runways
Johannesburg is a city that likes to be seen. Its fashion calendar runs from the polished business of South African Fashion Week to the community energy of Soweto Fashion Week, and its designers now show in Paris and sell in New York. To understand how the city dresses, start with its runways, then look at…
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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…
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The Surprising Story of Wax Print, the Cloth the World Calls African
Bold, glossy and instantly recognizable, wax print is worn across West and Central Africa. Its history runs through Java, the Netherlands and the market women who name it.
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Lagos, Dakar, Accra, Johannesburg, Nairobi: Where African Fashion’s Next Chapter Is Being Built
African fashion is many industries, not one. A city-by-city look at the weeks, prizes and designers shaping it, and why the world is paying attention.
