"Viola is royalty to me," Stewart shares. The dress features a silk cotton African print from a fabric that is made in Kameni's home country of Cameroon, where the designer's love of fashion began.

Dede Ayite, a Tony-nominated costume designer, with a woven Kente cloth featuring an Adinkra symbol that means “except for God.” She married West African styles with Western designs for the ...

Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” revisit the rules and repression imposed by the clothes we wear.