Thanks to Kyemah McEntyre, the teenager who designed her own prom dress last year, high school students across the country are wearing African-themed gowns. Yet despite the popularity of Ankara print ...

"I felt like a princess," says US teenager Brianna LeDoux about her prom gown which she specially commissioned from Nigeria. "I wanted my dress to stop people in their tracks." The 18-year-old from ...

A custom-made gown worn by Keira Knightley to this year's Oscars ceremony sold for $7,855 in an online auction to fund relief work in East Africa. The burgundy silk-taffeta one-shoulder gown, designed ...

One major theme that has defined this prom season amidst the march of celebrity red carpet replica dresses has been African-inspired designs. From the Black Lives Matter movement to bullied New Jersey ...

NORRISTOWN – It was an ad at Steve’s Sewing, Vacuum and Quilting in King of Prussia that first caught Nancy Hundley’s attention. The listing was for a charity sewing class called ‘Little Dresses for ...

Social media is doing cartwheels over Beyoncé's nod to Africa. The native-Houston superstar, with husband Jay-Z and family, popped into the Menil Collection on Sunday after her "Formation" tour ...

For her 100th birthday, Lillian Weber reached an important goal – she finished sewing her 1051st dress. Across the ocean in Africa, in a number of countries, hundreds of little girls wear dresses ...

THE AFRICAN LOOKBOOK A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women By Catherine E. McKinley DRESS CODES How the Laws of Fashion Made History By Richard Thompson Ford When it comes to fashion history, ...

Laniyah Belcarist, from St Louis in Missouri, ordered her dress from Nigeria for this year's prom "I felt like a princess," says US teenager Brianna LeDoux about her prom gown which she specially ...