African Fashion History Archives | OMIREN STYLES

How Colonial Law Targeted African Dress and Hair

CULTURE

How Colonial Law Targeted African Dress and Hair

Fashion History Through African Women’s Wardrobes: Cabinets, Trunks and Family Archives

Style & Identity

Fashion History Through African Women’s Wardrobes: Cabinets, Trunks and Family Archives

The Dress That Survived a Genocide: How Herero Women Turned Colonial Cloth Into Cultural Defiance

Heritage Clothing

The Dress That Survived a Genocide: How Herero Women Turned Colonial Cloth Into Cultural Defiance

Who Made Nelson Mandela's Shirts? Pathé'O and the Garment That Rewrote African Political Image-Making

Africa fashion

Who Made Nelson Mandela’s Shirts? Pathé’O and the Garment That Rewrote African Political Image-Making

Why Some African Styles Feel “Timeless”, and Others Disappear

FASHION

Why Some African Styles Feel “Timeless”, and Others Disappear

Lesotho’s Basotho Blanket: How a Colonial Gift Became a Symbol of Sovereignty

Textiles & Craft

Lesotho’s Basotho Blanket: How a Colonial Gift Became a Symbol of Sovereignty

Heritage Clothing

The Kaunda Suit and the Politics of African Presidential Dress

Heritage Clothing

Ethiopian Jazz and the Ambassadorial Dress of the Haile Selassie Court: A Visual History

Ghanaian Highlife and the Origins of Afrocentric Formal Dress

Art & Music

Ghanaian Highlife and the Origins of Afrocentric Formal Dress

Congolese Rumba and La Sape: The Music That Dressed a Movement

Trends

Congolese Rumba and La Sape: The Music That Dressed a Movement

Input your search keywords and press Enter.