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Runway

The continent, dressed.

Festival dress from across Africa — Ojude Oba, Eyo, Durbar, and Calabar in Nigeria; kente days in Ghana; the Cape Minstrel Carnival and Zulu ceremony in South Africa; Samburu and Lamu in Kenya; the Maasai of Tanzania; Timkat in Ethiopia. This is the standard the house is working toward.

An Eyo masquerader in Lagos in a white agbala and a wide red and white hat, holding a staff.
Eyo — Lagos, Nigeria
A line of women in Ghana in matching kente wraps and headbands, standing on red earth.
Ghana — kente, in a line
A chief at Ojude Oba in gold and green cloth, coral and green beads, holding a horsetail whisk.
Nigeria — Ojude Oba
A rider at a northern Nigerian durbar in a pink turban and veil, with horsemen behind.
Nigeria — Durbar
A Cape Minstrel in an orange and blue suit and sequinned hat, holding a tambourine.
South Africa — Cape Minstrel Carnival
A Calabar Carnival dancer in a costume of yellow, red, and black wings.
Nigeria — Calabar Carnival
Samburu women in layered bead collars and beaded headdresses.
Kenya — Samburu, Maralal
A woman at the Osun Osogbo festival with braided agogo hair crowned with beads.
Nigeria — Osun Osogbo
A man at Ojude Oba in a brown patterned agbada and a green beaded cap.
Nigeria — Ojude Oba
An Eyo masquerader in flowing white agbala and a red hat, staff raised.
Nigeria — Eyo, Lagos
Maasai men and women in Tanzania in red checked shúkà and white beaded headdresses.
Tanzania — Maasai, Ngorongoro
Two Akan dancers in kente wraps and beaded headbands.
Ghana — Akan
Two Zulu women in red beaded capes, black pleated skirts, and wide ceremonial hats.
South Africa — Zulu
A horseman at Ojude Oba in green and white striped aso-oke and a matching cap.
Nigeria — Ojude Oba
Maasai women in royal blue and purple shúkà with white beaded headdresses.
Tanzania — Maasai
Men in white kanzu with yellow sashes, lined up at the Lamu Cultural Festival.
Kenya — Lamu Cultural Festival
A close view of brightly patterned wax-print cloth.
The cloth itself
Worshippers in white shawls at an Ethiopian Epiphany procession, one carrying a drum.
Ethiopia — Timkat

These photographs were made at public festivals and are shared by their photographers on Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences. The people in them are not a cast the house is claiming as its own.

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