OKAYAfrica – African-American writer and curator Catherine E. McKinley‘s The African Lookbook is a remarkable repository for African women’s rich history, their influence on global fashion and photography spanning 100 years.
Published in January of 2021, the book comprises photographs collected during McKinley’s numerous travels across Northern and Western Africa over the years. The African Lookbook is an extensive archive currently documenting the role of mainly West African women in fashion and how both the thriving textile trade from a century ago as well as colonisation, resulted in the fashion landscape we’ve come to know today.
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Earned media for Catherine McKinley’s “The African Loookbook” also includes Another Mag, and Contemporary &.