2023-11-01 20:05:13
Published on November 1, 2023 9:05 p.m. / Modified on November 1, 2023 9:07 p.m.
From the ubiquity of streetwear to the creativity of textured hair, from the (Dutch) history of wax to the power of new black peplums, T magazine devotes a special issue to Afro aesthetics. A pan-Africanist tailor, a new French culinary star, and in Geneva, a powerful singer and a sensitive fashion designer…
Find all these articles in the special file: Luxury, fashion, creative industries: what Afro turning point?
“All I know is that I know nothing, while others think they know what they don’t know.” We think of this adage attributed to Socrates when Perrine Yabi and Caroline Akwei say that passers-by mistake their shop for a charity shop. Afrikalab, their Geneva concept store in the Grottes district, actually defends the little-known art of African couture. There we find a range of fabrics which allow us to overcome another Western prejudice: that according to which the creation of fabric from the continent is limited to wax alone.
Also read: Perrine Yabi, the Afro-Geneva singer of optimism and transmission
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