Fashion

Bobby Kolade’s ‘Return to Sender’ Turns Uganda’s Second-Hand Clothing Crisis Into a Global Fashion Reckoning

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Bobby Kolade

When fashion designer Bobby Kolade returned to Kampala from Berlin in 2018, he came with an ambitious vision: to help revive Uganda’s once-thriving cotton and textile industry. The plan seemed straightforward. After years spent building a career in Europe’s fashion capitals, including working with luxury houses such as Balenciaga and establishing his own label in […]

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Khuthadzo Nemutanzhela: Designing a New African Modernity Through Fashion, Architecture, and Venda Identity

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Across Africa, a new generation of designers is dismantling the traditional boundaries that once separated fashion, architecture, art, and cultural practice. Few embody this shift as compellingly as South African multidisciplinary designer Khuthadzo Nemutanzhela. Known professionally as Blaq, Nemutanzhela has emerged as one of the continent’s most intriguing creative voices, building an interdisciplinary practice that

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