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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Joe Bromley

Africa Fashion at the V&A review: Succinct and celebratory

The Victoria and Albert’s Africa Fashion exhibition comes starter size, and leaves you hungry for more.   

The task to pack the sartorial splendour of the world’s second largest continent into the two-floor Gallery 40 space is an impossible one. Instead, this is succinct and celebratory, providing a brief history of Africa’s clothing trade from the independence era, and winds up to an effervescent who’s who of contemporary African designers today.  

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