Sage and Shea African Store is a boutique located in the Bridgeport neighborhood located 3502 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60609. The store offers African apparel, jewelry, handbags, shoes, and…
The Adinkra Symbol Collection The Adinkra Symbol Collection was created by Black Fashion Week to uplift and celebrate the rich cultural history of Adinkra symbols, which originated in Ghana, West Africa and…
Akese Stylelines splashed on to the Chicago fashion scene in early 2012. Designer Jennifer Akese Burney captures the vibrance and color of the popular Ankara tradition while offering…
Mona Muhammad, aka Ms. Knotty Loop designs are coined the term Sasschet? The best of both worlds – Sass, class, and crochet. Mona began designing as the result of a…
Dreams Designs was birthed in the late 1990’s by Joyce Boykin. Joyce, a native of Chicago, IL, and designer of over 40 years, is a former graduate of Austin High…
Born to Nigerian parents in London, England, fashion was forefront and very influential in Stephane St. Jaymes’s upbringing. He grew up watching his mother and aunties sewing, and from a…
We’re starting this month strong with our first visual global African designer spotlight on Thebe Magugu. In the designer’s likeness, Thebe Magugu is a South African-born and bred luxury brand operating out of Johannesburg.
Mahisha Dellinger CURLS was founded by Mahisha Dellinger, a former Marketing Manager at a Fortune 500 Company. Disenchanted with the lack of natural hair products with quality ingredients and dependability, Mahisha sought…
ANALOG SOUL Spoken Word Artist Kiley Brown (Chicago) became a poet in 2011. In 2013 she took to the stage as "poet Ky." Her talents blossomed as she morphed into performance poet,…