CultureAfrica takes the spotlight at Paris Fashion Week’s spring-summer 2027 shows

Fashion can be political when it shapes identities and challenges power. South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo aims to bring the continent into focus through his label Maxhosa Africa. In Paris, Jacques Logoh, founder of Togo’s International Fashion Festival, gives African creatives a platform under the theme “Fashion against HIV”; Mossi Traoré stages a show at Père Lachaise Cemetery to address death without taboo.