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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nick Roll in Dakar

Dressing Dakar: a fashion city from artisan tailoring to haute couture

A group of women rest on a side street in the Yoff district of Dakar
A group of women in traditional Senegalese dress rest on a side street in the Yoff district of Dakar Photograph: Guy Peterson/The Guardian

Jackets are hung on one wall of Bada Seck’s single-room atelier in the Ngor arrondissement of Dakar in Senegal, dresses are arranged along another. Half-made garments lie on top of an unused sewing machine and bags of fabric cover the floor.

Seck’s workshop, in this former fishing village on the westernmost edge of the Senegalese capital might be modest, but his clients come from as far away as France.

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