Internationally-recognized Lagos-based concept store Alára invites Soukra to participate in their pop-up shop at the Brooklyn Museum’s Africa in Fashion exhibition, June 23-October 22, 2023. Soukra and Tunisian brand Tinja are presented at the Alára pop-up alongside Africa’s most talented designers in fashion and decor.
Vogue calls this a “landmark show” with “the most extensive survey the city has yet seen of African design, music, and visual arts from the 1950s to today.”
The exhibition presents a dazzling array of garments alongside music and visual art, and celebrates the ingenuity and global impact of Africa’s fashions. The exhibition ends with Alára’s pop-up shop featuring fashion and objects from across the continent.
We are thrilled to have worked with them to provide Tinja’s terracotta designs, handmade by female potters in Sejnane, and hand painted in Tinja’s atelier in Tunis. So much of what Alára founder, Reni Folawiyo, speaks about in creating a platform and space for African designers to flourish resonates with Soukra founder, Pauline. We hope to see more international attention paid to Africa and its creative forces.
Tinja’s striped vessel at the Alara pop-up shop at the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, Africa in Fashion
Tinja’s checked plate at the Alara pop-up shop at the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, Africa in Fashion.
Tinja’s checked pot at the Alara pop-up shop at the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, Africa in Fashion.
Soukra founder Pauline attends the panel discussion, “Africa’s Influence,” with Alára founder Reni Folawiyo, artist Kehinde Wiley and journalist Lola Ogunnaike, on June 22, 2023.
Soukra founder wears Anissa Aida’s Mia cotton shirt dress and square bag in camel to the public program on Africa’s influence.
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