Beauty salons and the beast
There is a new kind of man on the streets of Tanzania’s biggest cities. In Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza, these men wear designer clothes, shoes, belts, bracelets, rings and chains. They talk about...
View ArticleA bad shoe day in Maputo
The generosity to be found at busy intersections on the streets of Mozambique’s capital can be puzzling to first-time visitors. My Canadian-based partner, Imelda, was hardly a first-time tourist — she...
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Making ends meet in Umoja
Salma is tired of running her mitumba (pre-owned) clothing stall in Umoja, Nairobi. She says business isn’t what it used to be and she spends too much time chasing the credit deals she has with her...
View ArticleI See A Different You
A trio of friends from Soweto, Vuyo Mpantsha and twins Justice and Innocent Mukheli, started a photo/fashion blog to document “South Africa as they see it”. They shoot in different areas around...
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Robert Mugabe fashion range a hit in Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe is renowned for many things, but his starchy dress sense and Savile Row suits are considered the lesser of his crimes. And yet “dictator chic” has found a niche among young people in...
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Fashion to dye for
Christie Brown is a Ghanaian-based luxury women’s fashion label aimed at the contemporary African woman. It was founded in March 2008 by creative director Aisha Obuobi and named after her grandmother...
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Sudanese fashion: The Darfur Sartorialist
When I came to Darfur in 2009 to work with a United Nations agency that supports internally displaced people (IDPs), I spent a long time in IDP camps. There I grew increasingly intrigued by the...
View ArticleIn search of Africa’s next catwalk queen
Inspired by Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model, Africa’s Next Top Model is a new reality TV contest in search of the continent’s next Iman, Alek Wek or Oluchi Orlandi. It will be shot on location in...
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Fashion Week kicks off in DR Congo
While the army is battling rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s unstable east, models prepared to sashay down the catwalk at the first Fashion Week in the capital Kinshasa. Gloria Mteyu (29)...
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Bold and beautiful dresses
Rue 114 is a Ghanaian fashion brand that caters for the plus-size woman. Launched in 2011 by Serwah Asante, the brand celebrates beauty in all shapes and sizes. Forget ‘forgiving’ black and boring...
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Boys of Soweto: a love letter to township style
Boys of Soweto is the vividly shot tale of a dapperly-dressed circle of gentlemen, a group of suave-conscious South Africans known as Boys of Soweto. The short film, shot in just a day’s work, runs...
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African designers to descend on Tshwane for fashion week
Fashion week chairperson Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe on October 10 announced that the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa (MBFW Africa) will be taking place from October 30 to November 2. Collections of...
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Tuxedos, takkies and wearable art
These clothing and jewellery collections from African fashion labels speak for themselves. If you’re looking for sartorial inspiration different from the red carpet and magazine pages, you’re bound to...
View Article‘My Heritage, My Inheritance’
This is a clip from My Heritage, My Inheritance, a highly anticipated fashion film by South African knitwear designer Laduma Ngxokolo. Through his knitwear line, Ngxokolo seeks to preserve culture...
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Don’t just cry as your currency plunges. Here are 6 off-the-wall investments...
Art in Fashion exhibition in Germancy, featuring Vlisco fabric in the photo and draped on the picture. (Photo: Flickr/Marcdubach). African central banks are currently burning through their foreign...
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