Patrick's dance piece, Dandyism, which is making its North American debut in Toronto as part of the Luminato Festival, is a ...

The movement expanded to Europe with Congolese migration, in the 1970s and 1980s, where sapeurs reinterpreted European fashion — often incorporating vibrant colours and eccentric details ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — As she puts the final touches on her latest collection, a fashion designer in Congo sees the pinning, sewing and ironing as a way to send a message to the world.

Such are the paintings of Luzamba, whose work is inspired by the creative elegance of the Congo’s ‘sapeurs’. The sapeurs (from the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes) are members of a ...

In the eastern Congolese city of Goma, at the center of a conflict that has raged for decades, designers, models and artists gathered Friday for a fashion show held in the name of peace.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — As she puts the final touches on her latest collection, a fashion designer in Congo sees the pinning, sewing and ironing as a way to send a message to the world.

Every year, the Savannah College of Art and Design sends off an eager batch of fashion students into the design world, ready ...

BUT IN 2014, FASHION DESIGN WASN’T SEEN AS A SERIOUS CAREER IN THE CONGO. PEOPLE USED TO MAKE FUN OF ME LIKE, OH, YOU KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO BE SEWING ON THE STREET, BUT SISTER, THOUGH ...

Anaia Kassenda walks the runway during MODA's Fashion Show at the Gilmore Car Museum in 2022. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—For Anaia Kassenda, visiting Congo is usually a homecoming, but now she is returning to ...

Both Mobasser and Dwyer felt compelled to make a Congo-set movie that would ultimately be what they consider a “declaration of love to art of photography, fashion and the vibrant notes of ...

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