When I caught up with Adama Amanda Ndiaye, the designer was prepping for the latest installment of Dakar Fashion Week. To be exact, she was getting her makeup done for the opening dinner that would ...

This season, Chanel's Métier d'Art 2023 fashion show has touched down in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, making Chanel the first European fashion house to stage a show in Sub-Saharan Africa. In ...

Visiting West Africa felt like a special calling. As a Haitian whose ancestors derived from the region, absorbing the history in person would be a spiritual rite of passage, I told myself. The fashion ...

It was a striking scene in Dakar, Senegal, earlier this month for Dakar Fashion Week. This year’s three-day extravaganza featured 24 African and European designer collections at events in the Azalaï ...

Destination fashion shows are back big time, and extending to emerging luxury markets throughout Africa. Chanel said it will show its next Métiers d’Art collection in Dakar, Senegal, on Dec. 6. “By ...

From afar, Alassane Koné’s portraits appear composed of coarse brush strokes: Move a little closer, and you could swear it’s meticulously arranged straw. In fact, like most of the artworks on display ...

The capital of Senegal has become a fashion center. But photographing stylish people going about their day isn’t as easy as clicking a button. I encountered this local artist walking near the Plage de ...