The new Black Style, 52Min. , 2023, Arte & RBB

For a long time, they were hardly present in the western fashion world.

Today, designers from Africa are opening up a new perspective, on fashion and on their continent. Agile and increasingly influential creatives are freely and uncompromisingly demanding their place, telling their stories, in their own aesthetic language. Together with “third culture kids” returning from the diaspora to their home countries, an avant-garde is forming that politically shapes the global zeitgeist and stands for a modern, self-confident Africa.