Shortly after taking the oath of office as South Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela stormed the uptight fashion world of statesmen and dignitaries with the most ...

"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 ...

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 ...