Dakar Fashion Week Takes Style Back to the Streets

Author:
VOA News
Publisher:
VOA News
Publication Date:
2 July 2017
Tags:
Senegal, Arts, Culture and Entertainment

One of Dakar Fashion Week's biggest events is free - a fashion show in working class neighborhood, Niary Tally. The event's founder, Senegalese designer Adama Paris, says the so-called "Street Show" is her favorite event of the week because she gets to take fashion back to the streets where it originates. Ricci Shryock has more from Dakar.

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