Fashion

Watch out the style rave of the year as The Met Gala announces the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” Theme... This spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is unleashing "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style", a six-month extravaganza condensing 300 years of Black menswear into a walk of empowerment and swagger.

South African Fashion Week's Spring/Summer '25 edition will shine from April 24–26, 2025 at The Forum Hyde Park in Johannesburg, with seven runway shows and 24 collections from visionaries and new talent.

Africa Fashion International (AFI) has launched its 2025 FASTRACK Young Designer of the Year competition with entries ongoing from April 14 to May 5, 2025, granting African upcoming designers aged between 18 and 35 a golden opportunity of access to mentorship, market knowledge, and global visibility.

On the orange carpet of the 2025 WNBA Draft in New York City, Southern California standout Kiki Iriafen stole the show in a one-of-a-kind, sparkling gold Nigerian designer Nneka Alexander gown. Nicknamed Okikiola—"prosperity or wealth-bringing fame," she explained—it was an intricately beaded gown that had an orange-beaded bracelet as an accent that honored her Nigerian heritage in a rich, vibrant manner.

In a brilliant mixing of couture and culture, fashion icon Priscilla Ojo and Tanzanian number one Juma Jux (#JP2025) turned the city of Lagos into their own royal catwalk on April 17, 2025, as they sported impeccably coordinated royal blue attires for their traditional wedding ceremony.