How do you outfit an African queen? For Ruth E. Carter, the costume designer for “Black Panther,” it involved a Zulu hat and a 3-D printer. In her 30 years in film, Carter has made her career ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...

The African fashion market has continues to grow primarily on the back of African fabrics. “It’s great that African designers are beginning to embrace the use of our own fabrics in our designs.

In a 2012 study titled "Symbolic Significance Of African Prints: A Dying Phenomenon In Contemporary Print Designs In Ghana," researchers wrote: "Abstract names are given to the prints to suggest ...

She’s the sister of Nigerian soccer legend Sunday Oliseh, but with her fashion label Tesslo, Tessy Oliseh-Amaize is making a ...

“African print on its own is very bold, we incorporate it into other fabric to add that dash of colour,” says Winston Nyabera, the head designer at Nairobi based Dishol House of Design.

THE idea behind the AFWL exhibition The idea behind it perhaps, for me and my team is to showcase the beauty of made in Nigeria, made in Africa, our fabric, our fashion, our design.

For almost five decades of coming to life, one of Nigeria’s oldest arts and culture outlets- Quintessence, is looking as exquisite as ever; if not more sophisticated now, even after the passing ...

At the Paris show, the company paraded its own designs cut in its latest collection of fabrics as well as outfits by three young African stylists, winners each of a 5,000 euro Vlisco fashion prize.