Looks We Love on African Women Celebrities and Style Stars.

With the ease of the lockdown in most African countries, celebrities and style stars continue the slay as they go out securing the bag. We can all agree that when African celebrities and top influencers go out, they do it with a unique creative look that is impossible to ignore. West African women! Irrespective of…

New Maki Oh Collection Brings Sensuality and Yoruba Tradition to New York Fashion Week

Amaka Osakwe’s latest Maki Oh Fall 2018 collection Ala Kobe, translates to “someone that gets you into trouble,” Brought the sparkle and sexiness that New York Fashion Week needed. She opened the exhibition in a long coat, in “Adire” fabric, the signature dyed-an indigo-dyed fabric, dyed from Yoruba in the southwest of the country, alluding to the essence…

How African Americans have influenced Style and Culture

Exploding down runways, in stores, online, and on Main Street, wherever you look, the African style of the diaspora is omnipresent today for people of all colors, races, and religions. Some key factors are influencing its popularity, including the rise of globalization, the Internet, and the desire of millennials of African descent to feel ownership…

Upcycled African fashion on a Volcanic archipelago

Mia launched her ethical fashion brand MIA By Mia Nisbet in 2008 intending to create and produce her up-cycled fashion lines in Africa. Mia creates high-end fashion clothes that combine recycled fabrics with traditional African textiles. MIA established its fashion line by producing in Malawi and selling international collections in Los Angeles, Japan, and London. In recent years,…