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 ...

Marie-Madeleine Diouf, seated among her indigo pieces. All artists featured throughout wear their own clothing. Marie-Madeleine Diouf recalls how it all started: her love affair with indigo. Growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ADAMA NDIAYE (26D: Senegalese fashion designer who created Black Fashion Week) Senegalese fashion designer ADAMA NDIAYE is also known by the name of her fashion label, ADAMA Paris. Frustrated by the ...

United States center Brittney Griner (15) blocks a shot by Senegal center Maimouna Diarra, during the first half of a women's basketball game at the Youth Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de ...