Beauty Of Black Pearl In Dakar Fashion Week Africa

The fashion week in Africa has always been controversial.

Some people think that African costumes are known as high-end fashion by professionals, and will become more and more attractive in the future.

For example, photographer Per-AndersPettersson, who participated in the twelfth Dakar fashion week, said, "a brand new modern Africa is growing rapidly."

But there are also opposing views that the fashion show in Dakar fashion week is based on the local specific environment, too closed and not fashionable.

More than 20 fashion designers from seven countries took their latest works to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, Africa, and participated in the thirteenth Dakar fashion week.

Many people may not have heard of the fashion show held at the same time, and even many people even do not know where Dakar is, compared with the recent fashion of Paris men's clothing week to occupy the headlines of the world's fashion media.

No wonder, after all, this fashion week is really not international.

The fashion week in Dakar has twenty designers, but there are only 22 models, and all of them come from Senegal.

Unlike the world famous models in Europe and America, or because of high-profile model brokers or large model competitions, models in Dakar fashion week do not have such a high threshold.

AminataFaye, a 26 year old model who took part in the show, said she was studying finance, and she applied to the fashion week when she applied for an audition.

In the future, I still want to work in the financial industry.

As a sideline.

This also makes people worry that the show is not professional enough.

As a city of Islam, Dakar has retained its elements of religious tradition, which may also be the reason for its international trend.

But on this point, Faye believes that it is a common misunderstanding abroad.

For example, traditional women in Dakar usually wear more conservative clothes, and so do she.

But when it comes to fashion week show, such as her participation in the show of SellyRabyKane from Senegal designer, although the inspiration of this season's Kane comes from African futurism, the clothes are more complex and exposed, but Faye says it doesn't mind it as a job.

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Besides, the city will hold Biennale.

Naturally, much of its attention has come from the locality, which is far from the Venice Biennale of the world.

But as AdamaNdiaye, the designer of the Dakar fashion week, said that although there are few new stars coming out every year, it gives the locals a stage to show.

Once colonial history, although Dakar belongs to Africa, it has a strong European flavor.

And urbanization started late, enabling many African traditions and art to be successfully preserved in this city.

So, put aside

The fashion for Dakar fashion week may not be what it will lead to next season, but the beauty that only belongs to Africa.

For example, in 2012, French photographer VincentBoisot took a photo of a model sitting in front of the tailor's shop during the ninth Dakar fashion week.

This photo has won the fifty-fifth world news photography competition (WPP), also known as the "Holi prize" art category single two prize.

African prints and other elements, but no show of black models was shown in the show.

We will not evaluate whether African models are necessary for African fashion.

But the "Black Pearl" from Dakar does look more delicious.

In addition to the top four fashion weeks in London, Milan, Paris and New York, in addition to the world flash, there are Wells India fashion week, Singapore Fashion Week, Vietnam Hanoi fashion week, Ukraine fashion week, Kyrgyzstan Bishkek fashion week and so on.

If people pay more attention to Shanghai fashion week, they may not be far away from fashion in the future.