2023-10-27 19:20:12
Published on October 27, 2023 at 9:20 p.m. Modified on October 27, 2023 at 9:27 p.m.
From the ubiquity of streetwear to the creativity of textured hair, from the (Dutch) history of wax to the power of new black peplums, T magazine devotes a special issue to Afro aesthetics. A pan-Africanist tailor, a new French culinary star, and in Geneva, a powerful singer and a sensitive fashion designer… Find all these articles in the special file: Luxury, fashion, creative industries: what Afro turning point?
Paris, cultural capital of the old world. This day in June 2023, she is close to an aneurysm rupture: her large arteries are blocked. The taxi drivers are fuming, the air is saturated with sun, bad moods and exhaust fumes. The Pont-Neuf and its perpendiculars are closed to traffic. For a fashion show.
Pharrell Williams, American rapper and stylist, presents his first collection for Louis Vuitton. And the situation does not lack symbolic charge: between the bronze of Henry VI and the Art Deco splendor of the Samaritaine department store, it is in a setting that might not be more bourgeois than a Parisian postcard than the elite of black American culture , the nobility of hip-hop, the monarchy of streetwear, came to witness the induction of one of its children to the position of undisputed superstar of the luxury industry. Dress code: monogrammed baggy, impossible sneakers, sunglasses over the top and XXL jewelry.
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