Style
Subverting stereotypes with Mowalola
“I try to push the boundaries of showing skin, being comfortable with your sexuality, with menswear as well as womenswear.”
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Music
Meet Mowalola’s favourite rapper, DetoBlack
The muse, rapper, actor, chartered accountant and gender equality activist is getting ready for the big league.
Culture
A wormhole into Mowalola’s world
The designer’s debut exhibition Silent Madness is a soundtrack-accompanied installation exploring her inner thoughts and tapping deep into her Nigerian roots.
Style
Donkwear: Manchester’s Mowalola-approved cult fashion label
With influences such as Kevin and Perry, Ali G and Beetlejuice, Donkwear might seem whimsical, but its designers see it as a serious alternative to fast fashion.
Style
Everything you need to know about SS23 at Paris Fashion Week Men’s
Get the fashion lowdown from PFW 2022, including Mowalola, Acne, Isabel Marant, Givenchy, Y/Project, Bianca Saunders, AMI, Dior, Loewe, Craig Green, Kenzo, Celine and more...
Style
Ai Mei Li is the new Mowalola-approved brand that sold out in 20 minutes
The London designer birthed her brand in lockdown via Instagram, creating reworked masterpieces that are “bigger than just clothes or aesthetics”.
Music
Where’s Kanye headed?
Yeezy season approaching. Expect a "rap album about God", affordable apparel with Mowalola in charge, and controversy.
Style
htown is east London’s new one-stop-shop
MACHINE-A’s ex-buyer, Harry Fisher, has opened up shop, stocking the best in Brit-fash from Martine Rose to Ahluwalia. Here, we ask: is he mad for opening a clothing store in the middle of a pandemic?
Music
100% Deto Black: the Lagos scene’s rising alt-rap star
She’s best mates with Mowalola, pens sharp sex-positive lyrics about gender equality and has rapped alongside Skepta and Unknown T.
Beauty
Aliyah’s Interlude on pimple patches and loving her dark skin
Daily Beauty Rituals: The AliyahCore originator and star of Mowalola’s AW23 show reveals the secrets behind her beat.
Style
Tear it up: it’s time to dress for anti-ambition
The Great Resignation has seen young people quit their jobs at record levels. How are designers responding? By slicing it up.
Style
Fashion East: love in a family dose
From Naples nightclubs to the birth of London’s modern menswear, and from early Martine Rose shows to the emergence of Mowalola, Brooke McCord sketches out 20 years of Lulu Kennedy’s glorious Fashion East family.
Culture
Boy.Brother.Friend: examining male identities and the diaspora through art
KK Obi and Emmanuel Balogun have launched the second coming of their original 2017 zine. It’s now a fully-fledged publication and the contents, as well as its contributors, are wicked.
Style
Homecoming 2022: big style, killer fashion
In photos: For its sixth outing as Lagos’ No.1 music-slash-culture festival, Homecoming took over sexy concept store Alara, with exclusive bits from Denim Tears, Stüssy, Off-White, Mowalola and more. Just take a look at the happy shoppers – they’re bloody gorgeous.
Music
Freak show: 2022’s sexiest, silliest and most brilliantly strange musicians
Featuring horny singles, vaporwave vixens, smutty, sordid house cuts and gay electro-punk with a cynical sneer.
Style
THE FACE Podcast: London Fashion Week
This week, the team dissects four days of viral moments, a return to wearable clothes, next-gen designers and, of course, Daniel Lee’s debut at Burberry.
