One of Dakar Fashion Week’s biggest events is free and high-end - a fashion show in a working class neighborhood. The event’s founder, Senegalese designer Adama Paris, says the “Street Parade” is her favorite show of the week, because she gets to take fashion back to the streets where it belongs.
Dakar Fashion Week Takes Style Back to the Streets
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"Fashion is everywhere in Dakar," says Dakar Fashion Week founder and designer Adama Paris, June 29, 2017. As if to prove her point, the stage of DFW's "Street Show" is surrounded on all sides by residents making their living off of clothes -- a shoe seller, a tailor, and pictured here Nichole Coly's fabric store.
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Models before Dakar Fashion Week's "Street Show" show, in the Niary Tally neighborhood, June 29, 2017.
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Models backstage before Dakar Fashion Week's "Street Show" in the Niary Tally neighborhood, June 29, 2017.
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Models backstage before Dakar Fashion Week's "Street Show" show, June 29, 2017.