Designer Junya Watanabe created a great spring-summer 2016 menswear collection which had as its theme the concept of “Faraway”. The collection featured many garments inspired by traditional African clothes and accessories and was created in collaboration with Dutch company Vlisco, which is a company that has been a strong supplier of fabric to West and […]
Tag: Africa
As the world is becoming more and more of a bigger and at the same time smaller place, African prints are becoming increasingly popular. And that’s very exciting to see. Of course, Africa is a pretty big place and prints and their significances vary from place to place and from culture to culture, but it […]
If fashion is a component of culture, a subculture can be defined as a group that is based on or organized upon a particular set of features of appearance, costume and adornment that makes its members distinctive enough to be a clear part of a wider culture. Each subculture has its own rules, some are […]
The Congolese are known to have a good reputation when it comes to style, but a group of men takes fashion to a whole different level and don’t shy away from treating it as their culture. These men are called Les sapeurs. The sapeurs are men from all walks of life: from carpenters to taxi […]