London designer Grace Wales Bonner drew on mid-century Burkina Faso and the portraiture of Sanlé Sory for her Spring-Summer 2022 collection. Bonner, a British-born designer of Jamaican descent, is known for fashion collections based on in-depth research on African diaspora and Black identity. To read more about how Sory's work influenced Bonner's work, please see her interview on CNN.
June 26, 2021