It was a quiet London Fashion Week, but Ahluwalia brought a riot of celebratory colour to the sunken, leafy Salters’ Hall Garden in London on Sunday. Her SS23 show was entitled ‘Africa is Limitless’ and was an exploration of all the myriad facets of African culture, from all its 54 (or 56 if you recognise the two disputed areas of Somaliland and Western Sahara) countries.
“Africa as a continent is always spoken about homogeneously,” said the Indian-Nigerian designer. “I wanted to look into every African nation, A-Z, Algeria to Zimbabwe, and celebrate the cultures and the differences between the countries.”
