Africa: The Fashion Continent, Emmanuelle Courrèges

Africa: The Fashion Continent is a visually sumptuous exploration of contemporary African sartorial creativity, presenting a generation of designers, stylists, photographers and artisans who are rewriting global fashion narratives from Lagos to Casablanca. With over 300 full‑colour photographs and a bold layout, the volume captures everything from Ghanaian appliqué inspired by Asafo flags to innovative upcycling practices—a tapestry of heritage, sustainability and innovation woven across urban runways and festivals.

Emmanuelle Courrèges frames this burgeoning movement as a kind of African Swinging Sixties, tracing how emerging voices reject reductive Western scripts and assert an aesthetic vocabulary rooted in local identity and global sophistication. Whether through adire prints worn by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or the theatrical headdresses of Lafalaise Dion, each image and essay asserts fashion as activism, culture‑making, and continental pride.

About the Author
Emmanuelle Courrèges is a French journalist raised across Cameroon, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, with contributions to Elle, Marie‑Claire, l’Express Styles and Vogue Italia. She founded LAGO54, a platform championing contemporary African fashion in France, and brings both insider understanding and global perspective to this bold portrait of African style .

Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Flammarion
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9782081513419