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6 days ago
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25 days ago
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I have had my eyes on South African fashion for a long time, and I’m wearing a few of my favourite brands here. In love with this oversized knitted poncho from @herushezi, which I first saw for their debut on the Lagos Fashion Week runway in 2022. Second is @svl_stories. What drew me to them is their deconstructed technique as a design language. Lastly is @nhlanhlamasemola.official, extremely fond of their clean and chic tailoring. 📸: @rajaalemnari (slide 1-6) @whosselected (slide 7) taken in Marrakech, Morocco by @bernarddayo
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a year ago
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Styling African Designers is a project that I’m proud of, not because of its surface aesthetics but for its infrastructure of imagination. As a speculative work, it allowed me to assign new meanings to clothing and create new embodiments, in a world yet to encounter colonial contact. Mzukisi Mbane’s Imprint brand is one that has often described itself as “Afro-futuristic” with its glossy bold prints, so I played into a different speculative utility by wearing a huge, sculptural hat to mimic early models of satellite dishes in South Africa, one that signified how knowledge is weaved into clothing. The other shot on the right gestures towards Xhosa blanket body wrapping. The Rich Mnisi look is one of the most speculatively charged, situating African queerness in different eras (please see previous post for full explanation). I made the monocled beret myself, and strung rings together to make the necklace. Please see the explainer to understand looks for Bubu Ogisi and Adama Paris, the latter a ceremonial dressing for a global climate summit. For Amine Bendriouich, I wore a Moroccan fez hat and half-adorned lace, the lace half-worn to reflect how current discourse on African fashion has rendered North African fashion both visible and invisible. Gratitude to @midekingvisuals for shooting these images. by @bernarddayo
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a year ago
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At the risk of “over-explaining,” here’s an explainer to control interpretations of the political and symbolic currents in this project. There’s a lot I had to squeeze into these slides, but it mostly got the job the done. It addresses a lot of things, from speculative time travel, Western museumification, homophobia to civil unrests. I’m also open to entering generative conversations and welcoming critiques. Lastly, appreciation to @asonofaben and @yassmin_a for unknowingly contributing to the political activism in this work. by @bernarddayo
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a year ago
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Two years in the making, Styling African Designers is a project I wasn’t sure would see the light of day, given that it was shot twice in 2024 and the footage mysteriously got lost. My sanity was put to test, and it took an incredible amount of willpower to shoot again. This time, I saw the project with new eyes, slowly shifting into a dense field of symbols, history, and political meanings. It wasn’t my original intention to cast African fashion in an alternate timeline, not defined by Western validation, museums, and recognition metrics. A world without the breach of colonization, folding African fashion and its politics in a time gap that couldn’t exist because of foreign interference. But this was what this project demanded, developing a pulse of its own, insisting on what it should be. From Mzukisi Mbane, Lukhanyo Mdingi, Rich Mnisi (South Africa), Bubu Ogisi, Lisa Folawiyo (Nigeria), Imane Ayissi (Cameroon), Elie Kuame (Côte d’lvoire) to Adama Paris (Senegal) and Amine Bendriouich (Morocco)—none of these designers featured in the cosplay are random. I started to see time and meaning-making differently, a return to African cosmological systems, so that cosplaying three designers from South Africa wasn’t an accident, but to defy the idea that numbers should be linear and fixed. It’s a gesture that multiple forms can exist simultaneously, challenging colonial counting. Continued in comments (1/2) by @bernarddayo
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a year ago
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Got the honour to attend @torloweiworld’s spring/summer 2024 show at the private residence of the Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria. Great atmosphere and timeless clothes. I can’t wait to see what the brand does next.⠀ ⠀ 📸: @theiykeibeh ⠀ ⠀ taken in Abuja, Nigeria by @bernarddayo
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3 years ago
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⁣⁣Much thanks to @eki_kere and @fruche.official for making these custom looks in the first and second image, which I wore for Dakar Fashion Week.⠀ ⠀ I knew I was going to meet a bevy of people wearing boubous in Dakar, which is a sartorial staple in Senegal, hence the impetus to style my @dye_lab pieces differently. ⠀ ⠀ 📸: @fhemy.raw ⠀ ⠀ #whatareyouwearing⠀ taken in Dakar, Senegal by @bernarddayo
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3 years ago
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⁣I’m grateful to be stepping into my new role as creative director of (insert fashion house). It’s partly a late Halloween costume drop that probes the continued appointment of white male designers to helm luxury brands. ⠀ ⠀ Women and people of marginalized communities don’t need to surrender to fashion’s representational puppeteering to score cool diversity points. We can chart our own paths. ⠀ ⠀ I’m also trying new stuff with my hair and thanks to @adedamola_op for the cool shot. by @bernarddayo
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3 years ago
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⁣What I wore throughout Lagos Fashion Week.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ I wanted to incorporate raffia as a theme in my outfits (I wore all black last season) so I turned to @eki_kere, whose artisanal practice majorly involves raffia, a noticeable aesthetic with the Nigerian brand.⠀ ⠀ My favourite look was styling the raffia-fringed flip flop and huge raffia tote bag from them with the loose tunic from @__dukun, another Nigerian brand. The idea came to me quite instantly when I first saw the pieces separately. It was a cross pollination I knew I had to make work. ⠀ ⠀ Grateful to @__dukun for making such a mobile, detail-oriented, functional look. Special gratitude to @eki_kere for accommodating all my requests and questions even though they were in the thick of making and presenting a runway collection for Lagos Fashion Week. ⠀ ⠀ I have never felt so proud wearing Nigerian/African brands and I have lost count on the number of times I was stopped by random strangers to take a picture of my outfits (the raffia-fringed flip flop was quite the show-stopper). ⠀ ⠀ Finally, thanks to @sammy.oa for capturing this and fine-tuning my idea of using an elevator as a prop. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #whatareyouwearing #africanfashion #nigerianfashion #lagosfashionweek by @bernarddayo
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3 years ago
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I love fashion. ⠀ ⠀ And last year’s Lagos Fashion Week going as a fashion writer-editor for OkayAfrica was equally thrilling and eye-opening because it was the first time taking up the vantage point of sitting front row, a long way from when I first attended the show in 2016 interning as a dresser backstage. ⠀ ⠀ Looking through these images from last year and it’s dawning on me again that I actually did style myself in black. It’s my favour colour because of how it provides anonymity and codes for my personality. ⠀ ⠀ With Lagos Fashion Week returning this week, and OkayAfrica entering again as a media partner, I’m looking forward to boundless creativity from design talents in Africa and decolonial perspectives on dress making. ⠀ ⠀ Lastly, good luck to the designers making their debut in Lagos for the first time!✌🏽⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 📸: @Damolashotit (first and last slide) by @bernarddayo
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3 years ago
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Can’t really explain my love for black. by @bernarddayo
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7 years ago
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