Ivory Coast fashion designers storm the international stage
Abidjan Fashion Week Maléombho — who has also dressed Beyonce's sister Solange and fellow singer Kelly Rowland — started working with local materials because she felt African cultural codes, textiles and aesthetics were not represented in the international fashion world.
African soft power He shows at the Paris and New York fashion weeks but has never left his home base in Ivory Coast for good.
Fellow Ivorian couturier Ibrahim Fernandez agrees African designers "are every bit as good as those on the international fashion scene".
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