Africa fashion
Victoria & Albert Museum
★★★★★ ‘Elegant and exuberant’ The Telegraph
★★★★★ ‘It feels like a glorious celebration’ Time Out
‘Africa Fashion’ at the V&A offers a compelling glimpse into the richness of the African continent, its people, cultures and histories, through the lens of fashion.
Bringing together over 250 objects including photographs, textiles, music and the visual arts, the exhibition explores African fashion from the wake of the continent's liberation, to the trail-blazing contemporary creatives transforming global fashions today.
Working with V&A curators, Westport architects and creative agency, Pocc, the designers aimed to capture the abundance of joy, beauty, pride and creativity of the African fashion scene.
Taking a departure from the traditional ‘white box’ gallery space and any archaic representations of Africans and African Fashion in favor of using colour, form, texture and light, the design emulates and echoes Africa’s rich landscape and diversity of people and thinking.
