It Will Change Your View of African Fashion

LONDON — The influence of Africa and its fashion scene has redefined the geography of the fashion industry in recent years, breaking barriers with its vitality and its reimagining of what creativity can be. A continent whose fashion has often been imitated, yet gone largely underrecognized by the West, is having a long overdue moment…

The Thirst for Merch

On Friday morning, a cloudless sky stretched above the Brooklyn Museum. As the sun marked the arrival of a sweltering July, clusters of people lined up an hour before opening to be the first ones inside. It was the first day that “Figures of Speech,” a multimedia retrospective of work by the designer Virgil Abloh,…