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 ...

Orange Culture, founded in Lagos, explores identity and masculinity through fashion. The brand's designs are produced in ...

African fashion is going through a quiet but powerful shift. It’s no longer only about traditional outfits for ceremonies or cultural events.

Textile pattern by Constance Girard for Vlisco on view in Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) The story of Vlisco begins not in Dakar, Lagos, or Accra, ...

As you’re no doubt aware, since the turn of the millennium, Lagos – Nigeria and West Africa’s largest city – has quickly established itself as a global cultural hub. That’s typically attributed to its ...

The Our Homecoming founder becomes the first African woman to design a Nike sneaker, bringing Lagos and the diaspora to the global stage. Grace Ladoja has spent years building bridges between Africa ...

To put it plainly, Sarah Diouf is an image architect. The designer with a degree in visual communication spent the better part of her early twenties spearheading a magazine. She tells me over a call ...

SHREVEPORT, La--When people think of fashion and designers, they want to go to Los Angeles or even Dallas. But what a lot of people don’t know is there’s one Shreveport woman who is making her own ...

Cheyney McKnight says her work as a historical interpreter and researcher led to her path as a designer. McKnight launched Not Your Momma’s History in 2014, where she develops programming and makes ...

Tshwane University of Technology fashion students Tukiso Alex Makgoka and Bofelo Senonohi are emerging as part of a new ...

PARIS — Thebe Magugu is setting up house. The South African designer has opened his first retail location in Johannesburg, but Magugu House is more than just a store. Set on a 32,000-square-foot plot ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African-born fashion designer and entrepreneur Lesego Malatsi has gone from stitching ready-to-wear garments in a Soweto township mall set amid shanties to savouring the ...