Victoria & Albert Museum Plans a Major African Fashion Exhibition for 2022

LONDON — The Victoria & Albert museum is responding to the ongoing conversations around the lack of representation across the world’s biggest cultural institutions by dedicating its next major fashion exhibition to Africa.

“The V&A has a far-reaching platform and with that comes responsibility. Our international standing as a world-leading museum gives us a voice, a voice that is almost always heard. We intend to use that voice to tell new layered stories about the richness and diversity of African creativity, cultures and histories, using fashion as a catalyst,” Checinska said.

Checinska will be working with the designers’ personal archives, as well as the V&A collection of African textiles and photographs, many of which will be going on display for the first time.A design by Chris Seydou Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum But aside from working with private archives, the museum is also making a public call-out to anyone who has clothes by Sydou, Ansah or Thomas-Fahm, personal testimonies to share, family portraits or made-to-order garments that showcase African and African diasporic fashion from the years of the African independence to the modern day.

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