Fashion serves as a global tongue, and increasingly, it is a worldwide sensibility that welcomes African-inspired clothing ...

Here at ESSENCE.com, we love a great print, and right now, no print is more exciting than the bold and vibrant African-inspired patterns that are showing up everywhere. African fashion has long been ...

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 ...

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 ...

A flourishing network of young immigrant entrepreneurs from Africa—with a sprinkling of first generation born in the U.S.—are creating a profitable ecosystem around modern Ankara print apparel. Ankara ...

Social media is doing cartwheels over Beyoncé's nod to Africa. The native-Houston superstar, with husband Jay-Z and family, popped into the Menil Collection on Sunday after her "Formation" tour ...

Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum ...

There's "nothing like Black girl Magic," she wrote on Instagram. Makalaya Zanders, 18, is pictured here with her date to the prom for Garfield Heights High School in Garfield Heights, Ohio, on May 13, ...