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 ...

Yemisi Bamisaye of Southfield is the incredible designer behind a fashion forward line of African wear patterned after modern attire as we know it here in the U.S. but made with authentic African ...

A civil engineer by trade and an artist at heart, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku has found an innovative way to raise awareness about ...

Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) — What started as a few friends with a love of sewing has grown into a mission of giving that’s reached across oceans. Phat Tuesday faces scrutiny as Mobile City Council considers ...

Why is it that South Africa has so many different fashion weeks? Most major fashion capitals around the world have just one fashion week twice a year, but in South Africa we have SA Fashion Week twice ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - When the pandemic hit it was a group of African refugees who went to work, sewing their love into African fabric. “As Africans, we usually wear these as clothing most of the ...

Funeka Valashiya started sewing at a young age and now aims to pass on the skill to the next generation. Tsakani – Funeka Valashiya (64) is a seamstress who started a project in Rockville that offers ...

Children living in the most impoverished areas of Kenya and Ethiopia wear tattered garments that are hardly fit for scrap by American standards, according to Patt Bartig. “Most of us would scrub ...

The African Lookbook has a different agenda: images that present a stereotype-busting way to look at African women, their relationship with fashion — and their ability to turn the sewing machine from ...