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Exhibition Opening on Saturday, 2 July 2022

Africa Fashion

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Opening on Saturday, 2 July 2022
Gallery 40
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Spanning iconic mid-20th century to contemporary creatives through photographs, textiles, music and the visual arts, Africa Fashion will explore the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself.

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Woman on catwalk wearing metallic pink trousers, top and cape with tasselled detailing — Mbeuk Idourrou collection, Imane Ayissi, Autumn/Winter 2019, Paris, France. Photo: Fabrice Malard / Courtesy of Imane Ayissi

Woman wearing a lemon yellow dress and jacket, with tasseled detailing. Her face is painted with metallic colours — 'Chasing Evil' collection, IAMISIGO, Kenya, Autumn/Winter 2020. Courtesy IAMISIGO. Photo: Maganga Mwagogo

Black and white image of a woman in a long dress and long cape with hood — Pioneering Moroccan designer Naima Bennis

Model posing with arm against a tree. Wearing black skirt and short sleeved jacket with white patterned detailing — Design by Chris Seydou. © Nabil Zorkot

Woman wearing a cream suit with patchwork detailing, large straw hat tied below chin, and white pointed heeled boots — Alchemy collection, Thebe Magugu, Autumn/Winter 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. Photography: Tatenda Chidora , Styling + Set: Chloe Andrea Welgemoed, Model: Sio

Dark blue cloth with light blue detailing — Adire, indio-dyed cloth, Nigeria. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Person on catwalk wearing headpiece, jacket and skirt made from dyed cloth in shades of light blue, dark blue and white — DAKALA CLOTH ensemble, 'Who Knew' collection, Abuja, Nigeria, Spring/Summer 2019. Image courtesy Nkwo Onwuka. © Kola Oshalusi

Black and white photograph of person wearing headpiece. They wear facial jewellery and nose piercing jewellery — Self-portrait, Gouled Ahmed, Addis Foam, Ethiopia

Two men wearing white shirts, hats and sunglasses, sitting back in chairs. There is a vase with flowers behind — Photograph by Studio Kameni, Cameroon

Person wearing dark and light blue buttoned dress with speckled design, and blue mask with beaded detailing — Aso Lànkí, Kí Ató Ki Ènìyàn ('We greet dress before we greet its wearer') collection, 2021, Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos Space Programme. Photo: © Kadara Enyeasi

Figure standing in a translucent outfit covered in black hand pattern with entire body covered — 'The Trench' designed by Maison ArtC, Morocco, 2021. © Image courtesy @M.A.Roock, model Abdul

Multicoloured cloth — Cotton cloth, 1900–49, Ghana. Museum no. CIRC.766-1967. . Museum no. CIRC.766-1967. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Black and white photo of person stepping onto a plane image on a backcloth — Sanlé Sory 'Je Vais Décoller, 1977. © Sanlé Sory/Tezeta. Courtesy David Hill Gallery

Image of man and woman in bright orange outfits ina. black and white studio — Designed by Kofi Ansah, ensembles for the wedding of Ashley Shaw-Scott Adjaye and David Adjaye. Ghana, 2014. © Photographed in London in 2014 by Robert Fairer

Africa Fashion

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Background image: 'Indigo' Couture, by Kofi Ansah, models: Narh & Linda, 1997, Accra, Ghana. Photograph © Eric Don-Arthur