Alexis Peskine, 2013
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Ivoirian designer Elie Kwame, fitting a model, backstage at Hôtel Radison Blu, during Dakar Fashion Week 2017.
Adama Paris is a Senegalese fashion designer. She is also the founder of the “Dakar Fashion Week” and of the international “Black Fashion Week”.
Adama Paris est une créatrice de mode sénégalaise . Elle est également la fondatrice et l’opératrice de la “Dakar Fashion Week” et de la “Black Fashion Week”.
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
horse cart driver
Nora Chipaumire, New York based performing artist, originally from Zimbabwe.
From the series [re-]Mixing Hollywood, a collaboration with Omar Victor Diop
Senegalese photographer, Dakar, 2002
Cible de tir, sous-sol de l’ancien Palais de Justice, Dakar, 2016
Senegalese photographer
South African choreographer
Malick Sidibé, Bamako, 2002
Archives du Greffe, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, 2016
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
Antichambre de la Cour Suprême, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, 2016
Escalier, immeuble administratif, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, 2016
Cour Suprême, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, Cap Manuel, 2016
South African social activist
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
From the series ‘Théorie des Règnes Sensibles’, a collaboration with MIS Wude
Adedayo Liadi, Nigerian choreographer and dancer.
Hostellerie du Chevalier de Boufflers, Gorée, 2015
Merlin Nyakam, French-Cameroonian choreographer and dancer.
Truck overload on ancienne route de Mbour, 2015
Restaurant, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, Cap Manuel, 2016
Béatrice Kombé Gnapa, Ivoirian choreographer
Souleymane Diamanka est un artiste français qui pratique le slam. Se distinguant d’artistes tels Grand Corps Malade, le jeune homme s’inscrit dans la tradition orale des Peuls, un peuple de bergers qui fait de la parole un art. Souleymane grandit à Bordeaux, à la Clairière des Aubiers, un ensemble HLM. L’artiste découvre très tôt l’écriture en classe de CE2 pour ne plus s’en passer. Il découvre ensuite la culture hip hop qui le mène, en 1994, à enregistrer son premier texte. Il travaille alors, entre autres, avec les Nubians. Il écume de nombreuses scènes et, en avril 2007, il livre son tout premier projet baptisé L’Hiver Peul.
Origines :
On aurait pu dire de Souleymane Diamanka qu’il marche sur les traces de Grand Corps Malade. Mais la renommée n’est pas le seul critère pour définir une ancienneté. Car même si le grand public ne connaît pas encore son nom, Souleymane (dit Duajaabi Jeneba) s’investit depuis bien longtemps dans la musique. Originaire de la région bordelaise, il a notamment eu l’occasion de croiser la route des Nubians et leur a offert deux titres. Plus jeune, le slammeur a découvert la poésie à l’école. Il a apprécié cet art et s’est inspiré de la tradition orale des Peuls, un peuple nomade du Sahel.
Ingrédients :
Aux côtés du concepteur musical Woodini, l’artiste a travaillé pendant plusieurs mois sur L’Hiver Peul pour livrer 15 morceaux sobres et un peu nostalgiques. La musique, à base de percussions, de cordes, de bois… se confond sans problème avec ses textes très étudiés. Dans la chanson-titre, il rend bien sûr hommage à ses ancêtres, en incluant la voix de son père, qui perpétue la tradition peul. Il évoque aussi la haine, à travers un message quelque peu désabusé et bourré de poésie. Mais ce premier album n’est pas une référence basique à un lieu ou à un pays ; il s’agit tout simplement du témoignage d’un grand amoureux des mots.
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Salle des pas perdus, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, Cap Manuel, 2016
The South African choreographer and dancer Gregory Maqoma.
Kettly Noël, Haitian choreographer established in Bamako, Mali.
“City Gym Boys” fitness company members on the beach at Coney Island, NY.
Faustin Linyekula, Congolese choreographer.
Photographed in Dakar, Alexis Peskine is a French visual artist of Ukrainian and Brazilian descent.
Entrée d’une salle d’audience, ancien Palais de Justice de Dakar, Cap Manuel, 2016
Model: Aminata Faye. Headpiece and necklace by Mickael Kra. From the series ‘[re-]Mixing Hollywood’, a collaboration with Omar Victor Diop.
Model Eric Boadi, styled by himself.
In Senegal, an ancient tradition has become a new sport – and a livelihood
Democratic Books Editions. By Caroline Pochon and Allan Rothschild.
SHELL advertising campaign, 2013. Photographer: Antoine Tempé. Agency: McCann Sénégal. Production: Studio Sankara.
Born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. Jean-Paul Gaultier co-presented the popular television series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes.
Jean-Paul Gaultier grew up in the suburb of Paris. His mother was a clerk and his father an accountant. It was his maternal grandmother, Marie Garrabe, who introduced him to the world of fashion. He never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970. Afterwards he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean Patou later that year, then returning to manage the Pierre Cardin boutique in Manila for a year in 1974.
His first individual collection was released in 1976, and his characteristic irreverent style dating from 1981 has led to his being known as the enfant terrible of French fashion. Many of Gaultier’s following collections have been based on street wear, focusing on popular culture, whereas others, particularly his haute couture collections, are very formal yet at the same time unusual and playful.[5]
Although most people found his designs decadent at the time, fashion editors, notably Melka Tréanton of Elle, Claude Brouet and Catherine Lardeur of French Marie Claire, were impressed by his creativity and mastery of tailoring and later launched his career.[6][7][8][9][10] In 1985, he introduced man-skirts and promoted their use, especially kilts,[1] in men’s wardrobe, and the release of designer collections.[4] Jean-Paul Gaultier has also worked in close collaboration with Wolford Hosiery.[11][12]
Jean-Paul Gaultier caused shock by using unconventional models for his exhibitions, like older men and full-figured women, pierced and heavily tattooed models, and by playing with traditional gender roles in the shows. This earned him both criticism and enormous popularity.[4]
At the end of the 1980s, Gaultier suffered some personal losses, including his boyfriend and business partner Francis Menuge, who died of AIDS-related causes.[1]
In 1988 Gaultier released a dance single titled “How To Do That” on Fontana records from which came one of the first ever “single title” remix albums “Aow Tou Dou Zat” on Mercury records.[13] The album includes mixes by Norman Cook, J. J. Jeczalik, George Shilling, Mark Saunders, Latin Rascals, David Dorrell, Tim Atkins, Carl Atkins, and Kurtis Mantronik. Co-written & produced by Tony Mansfield, video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.[14] The album also featured a collaboration with accordion player Yvette Horner.
Starting in 1993, he co-hosted the Channel 4’s program Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes. Gaultier hosted the show until 1997.[15]
Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010,[16] where he succeeded Martin Margiela.[17]
He is also well known for sponsoring the 2003–04 exhibit in the Costume Institute of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Braveheart: Men in Skirts,” which showed designs by Dries van Noten, Vivienne Westwood, and Rudi Gernreich in addition to Gaultier’s in order to “examine[s] designers and individuals who have appropriated the skirt as a means of injecting novelty into male fashion, as a means of transgressing moral and social codes, and as a means of redefining an ideal masculinity.”[18][19]
He also designed some furniture for the French furniture brand Roche Bobois.[20] In 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier organized a retrospective exhibit, “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.”[21] That exhibit is on tour with venues at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (Arkitektur- och designcentrum, ArkDes) in Stockholm,[4] the Brooklyn Museum in New York City,[22] the Barbican Centre in London,[23] the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne,[24] and the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition in Paris, which took place from April to August 2015, was the subject of a documentary called Jean Paul Gaultier at the Grand Palais aired exclusively on Eurochannel.[25]
In 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[27] This is the first time a fashion designer was called to sit on a jury at the festival.[28] He also designed the dress that Anggun wore as she represented France during the grand-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.[29] That year, he also participated in the Cali ExpoShow in Cali (Colombia), showing his extensive collection of perfumes and all classic clothes.[30]
Up until 2014, he designed for three collections: his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, for both men and women. At the spring/summer 2015 show he announced that he was closing the ready-to-wear labels to focus on haute couture.[31]
Susanne Bartsch is an event producer whose outlandish, over-the-top monthly parties at the Copacabana in the late 1980s united the haute and demi-monde, and made her an icon of New York nightlife. “Ms. Bartsch’s name,” according to The New York Times, is “the night life equivalent of a couture label, thanks to the numerous extravaganzas she staged in cities from Montreal to Miami.”
Born in Switzerland, Bartsch left her family at the age of 17 and moved to London, where she became an intimate of such celebrities as Jimmy Page, Malcolm McLaren, and many others. After moving to New York City in 1981, she opened a clothing boutique in SoHo that provided early exposure for British designers, including Vivienne Westwood, BodyMap, John Galliano, and milliner Stephen Jones. She also helped launch the careers of young American designers Alpana Bawa and Michael Leva, and was an associate of the Club Kids.
By the late 1980s, the economy was slowing and with retail sales for edgy clothing increasingly difficult, Bartsch began organizing weekly parties at prominent NYC nightclubs such as Savage, Bentley’s, and, finally, the Copacabana. Bartsch created the “Love Ball” in 1989 and raised $2.5 million to fight AIDS. For the first time, dance/vogueing/presentation and Houses inspired by drag balls in Harlem were introduced to a national audience.
Bartsch took part in philanthropic work, running annual holiday toy drives along with her partner David Barton, whom she married in a lavish 1995 wedding. The pair separated in late 2010.
In 2015, The Museum at FIT mounted an exhibit celebrating her famous costumes.
(Excerpts from Wikipedia)