Africa Fashion
Auteur(s) : Christine Checinska
Exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 31 March – 12 July 2026
Africa’s creative energy is expressed with unique vitality and inventiveness in the world of fashion. With boldness and style, fashion designers from the continent and the diaspora assert both their historical heritage and ‘Afro-modernity’: the elegance of their ancestors, the craftsmanship of African artisans, and their own aspiration to shine on the international stage.
From South Africa to Mali and from Morocco to Kenya, this exhibition catalogue paints a portrait of a diverse, inspired Africa in constant reinvention, whose fashion shows in Lagos, Dakar, Accra and Johannesburg reveal the new, unmissable fashion capitals that rival Paris, London and New York in creativity.
