The company behind some of Africa’s most popular fabrics is Dutch, but women vendors have managed to make the prints their own. With its geometric patterns, bold prints, and rich, electric pops of ...

The way one dresses can express their heritage, culture, style and so much more. African-print textiles, which were actually inspired by batik or wax-resist cloth from Indonesia, have been used to ...

A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...

Elevate Africa has announced the commencement of applications for the 2026 edition of the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize, a pan-African initiative aimed at preserving and promoting endangered ...

In the fashion world, a "lookbook" is a collection of photos highlighting, say, a fashion designer's work or a fashion model. The African Lookbook has a different agenda: images that present a ...

Large bundles of fabric is what retired Detroit Public School teacher Patricia L. Millender brought back from her rather recent trips to South Africa and Ghana. "This past February, I traveled to ...

Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the Republic of Congo, welcomed designers, models and fashion enthusiasts from across ...

“Riotously colorful, densely patterned, and unassailably fabulous,” the iconic fabrics have come to symbolize Africa’s contribution in fashion and design to the rest of the world. Beyond the fashion ...

Ladybrille blogs about African fabrics: “Ladies, especially those in Europe and America, have you ever tried buying African fabrics? They never seem to come with instructions! How frustrating is that?