"All I want to do is create clothes that match up to the incredible beauty of all women," remarked designer Lisa Folawiyo on the set of her look book shoot for her latest collection.
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PROTOChic chatted with Thebe Magugu last year, asking how the contemporary womenswear South African designer starts his day. That same sense of playfulness rang true in his Spring / Summer 2018 collection presented during South Africa Fashion Week.
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Designer Kenneth Ize has his finger on the pulse of Lagos. Since launching his eponymous label in 2013, Ize has continued to develop his expertise in tailoring inspired by his hometown.
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For insatiable creative Duro Olowu, the muse du jour was none other than iconic two tone British Ska singer Pauline Black of late 1970s group The Selecter.
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Red light flooded the runway at Cadillac House, the setting for the Fall / Winter 2018 collection of five-year old menswear label Abasi Rosborough.
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Virgil Abloh is hitting his stride as creative director and polymathic magnate for luxury brand Off-White. As the consummate designer, Abloh offers a contemporary example of living creatively with no limits.
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An upstart brand with roots to the camp of Kanye West and Off-White's Virgil Abloh, Heron Preston makes its own rules and the end consumer wins above all.
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In a somewhat rare arrangement as far as design houses go, father-son duo Joe and Charlie Casely-Hayford have built a formidable menswear business based on Savile Row tailoring and modern English style.
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There was a sense of passage at the Simon Lee Gallery tucked in London's Mayfair neighborhood, the setting for Wales Bonner's Fall / Winter 2018 Menswear show.
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It's the midst of December where indeed it is blustery in one half of the world, balmy in the other half, and somewhere in-between everywhere else. Thankfully, style is not limited by temperature.
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It may be hard to understand if you've never visited the city, but Kenneth Ize's Spring 2018 collection presented during Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week felt like Lagos.
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Ask any fashion enthusiast their thoughts on MaXhosa by Laduma and immediate words come to mind: bold colors, traditional heritage, and luxurious knitwear. His Spring 2018 presentation at Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week was emphasis on the same.
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Childhood games were the subject of Maki Oh's Spring 2018 presentation shown during New York Fashion Week. Creative Director Amaka Osakwe loves her history and even more channeling the narratives of Nigerian lore of old. The collection this time took a more personal approach, salvaging memories of her youth in Lagos.
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To celebrate Nigeria's Independence Day, PROTOChic is highlighting a few of our favorite Nigerian brands, burgeoning and beloved.
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Who but Haitian designer Stella Jean can combine aquatic wildlife, Bolivian female wrestling garb, and a drumming circle in one collection? Jean is quite literally known for her melange of cultural references, but this Spring 2018 collection during Milan Fashion Week honored the inspiration.
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Nigerian-born, London-based designer Duro Olowu has been a fountain of inspiration for African designers everywhere since launching his eponymous label in 2004. This season is an ode to Lee Miller, artist, photographer, and muse to surrealist painters in the 1930s.
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The story begins in Montego Bay, Jamaica where a young Matthew Harris was born and raised the son of a seamstress. Years later, his luxury brand Mateo New York would become one of the finalists for America's largest prize for emerging design talent.
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Trust a LaQuan Smith production to be high in social media fodder. The 29-year old fashion designer from Queens, New York revealed his Spring 2018 collection on Sunday set to a school yard backdrop.
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