News and updates from the Nest Collective.
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In Not African Enough, a collection of photography and essays on Kenyan fashion, one designer bemoans what she calls the “vicious cycle of wax print.” The bright, intricately patterned fabrics that have come to define African textiles are not from East Africa, nor really from Africa at all.
Read MoreOur photo and video series “When We Are/When We Are Not” was exhibited in Hamburg in July, where Sunny Dolat was in attendance to represent us. Sunny also had a showcase featuring our soon-to-be-released fashion book “Not African Enough”, and was part of a session together with Lamine Kouyaté/Xuly Bët that discussed battling stereotypes about African fashion, and the drawbacks of emerging trends such as increasingly fast fashion.
Read MoreIn the fashion industry, there is hardly consensus as to what constitutes ‘African’ design. So far, the mantra has been: if it looks ‘African’ it probably is (and vice versa). But there is more than meets the eye. The NEST collective, the creative tour-de-force based in Nairobi
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