To start creating mud cloth patterns, you need some basic materials. Get plain fabric like cotton or linen as your base. Fabric paint or natural dyes are also important for applying the designs. You ...

As I pass along a row of mannequins, the sharply tailored, pale blue cotton dashiki stops me in my tracks. Based on a long-sleeved open-necked, centuries old tribal costume, the garment has a sash ...

Fashion is a lingua franca, and in the modern context, it is increasingly a worldly sensibility embracing an African-inspired ...

Two years ago, the clothing brand DIOP was created when Mapate Diop, a New York City native, was wearing a shirt his mother had made to a barbecue — a tunic-style shirt with a traditional African ...

LAGOS, March 19 (Reuters) - Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the ...

A South African cultural activist says he is still reeling from the humiliation meted out to him for donning traditional attire to a shopping mall in a suburb of Johannesburg. Thando Mahlangu, 35, an ...

Expressing culture through fashion is something more and more students are embracing on campus, one piece of clothing at a ...

Colorful and vibrant traditional clothes from African countries and Korea adorned the Africa Day 2025 Korea-Africa Business Forum on Wednesday, accompanied by a side event introducing African food and ...

In theaters around the country, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, fans flocking to see Marvel’s “Black Panther” are making sure they show up in style -- African style. The much buzzed about movie based on ...

A black merit scholar was removed from his California high school graduation by deputies for wearing and refusing to remove his traditional African kente cloth. Nyree Holmes, 18, was ejected from the ...