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Visibility, Sustainability & Creativity – Black & African Designers At Berlin Fashion Week

Black and African-owned brands took center stage at Berlin Fashion Week: redefining fashion and using it as a tool for resistance, sustainability, and storytelling. From Buzigahill’s powerful Return To Sender show to NOMMO’s visionary platform and AZEA ZALEA’s deeply personal debut, these creatives are shifting the industry’s focus toward justice, heritage, and innovation. This isn’t just fashion — it’s a movement.

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Style, Individuality, Inclusion – Five Brands Redefining Adaptive Fashion

While the fashion industry likes to perform diversity, it still lacks true inclusivity and accessibility on many levels. Not only is there a lack of disabled models on the runway or in front of the camera, but mainstream brands are missing awareness and consideration for the clothing needs of disabled individuals. Learn more about five adaptive fashion brands that are challenging outdated stereotypes about disability and are transforming the fashion industry one garment at a time.

Janice Heinrich @

Reclaiming Stolen Archives – A Look Into Kamal Al Jafari’s “A Fidai Film”

“A Fidai Film" (2024) is Kamal Al Jafari’s act of cinematic resistance. Through the reworking of looted footage, he poses a counter-archive sabotaging the colonial gaze through the camera of the dispossessed.

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Pride in Fashion – How Black Queer Editors Changed the Industry

As corporate Pride campaigns dwindle and queer visibility fades from the mainstream, it’s essential to reflect on fashion’s deep-rooted indebtedness to LGBTQIA+ creativity—particularly that of Black queer pioneers. From André Leon Talley and Edward Enninful to the rise of a new generation of visionaries, we explore how queerness has always been at the heart of fashion—even when the industry tries to forget it.

Janice Heinrich @

Painting Memories: Monilola Ilupeju’s Journey Through Belonging, Lineage, and Arrival

In this intimate conversation with artist and author Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, we explore the emotional landscapes of arrival, memory, and intergenerational connection. Speaking from her exhibition Musafiri – Of Travellers and Guests at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Ilupeju reflects on the quiet rituals that shape her practice, the tension between displacement and belonging, and how painting becomes an act of care, vulnerability, and ancestral remembrance.

Luïza Luz @
Three Black models wearing Afro-futurist white sculptural garments by African designers at Berlin Fashion Week 2025, symbolizing sustainable innovation and cultural identity.

Visibility, Sustainability & Creativity – Black & African Designers At Berlin Fashion Week

Black and African-owned brands took center stage at Berlin Fashion Week: redefining fashion and using it as a tool for resistance, sustainability, and storytelling. From Buzigahill’s powerful Return To Sender show to NOMMO’s visionary platform and AZEA ZALEA’s deeply personal debut, these creatives are shifting the industry’s focus toward justice, heritage, and innovation. This isn’t just fashion — it’s a movement.

Janice Heinrich
Model Aariana Philip Taylor confidently walks the runway in an inclusive fashion show during New York Fashion Week, representing disabled, Black, and trans communities.

Style, Individuality, Inclusion – Five Brands Redefining Adaptive Fashion

While the fashion industry likes to perform diversity, it still lacks true inclusivity and accessibility on many levels. Not only is there a lack of disabled models on the runway or in front of the camera, but mainstream brands are missing awareness and consideration for the clothing needs of disabled individuals. Learn more about five adaptive fashion brands that are challenging outdated stereotypes about disability and are transforming the fashion industry one garment at a time.

Janice Heinrich
Two prominent fashion editors, André Leon Talley and Anna Wintour, seated front row at a fashion show, dressed in elegant, luxurious winter attire.

Pride in Fashion – How Black Queer Editors Changed the Industry

As corporate Pride campaigns dwindle and queer visibility fades from the mainstream, it’s essential to reflect on fashion’s deep-rooted indebtedness to LGBTQIA+ creativity—particularly that of Black queer pioneers. From André Leon Talley and Edward Enninful to the rise of a new generation of visionaries, we explore how queerness has always been at the heart of fashion—even when the industry tries to forget it.

Janice Heinrich
Painting of a woman sitting in an armchair against patterned wallpaper with a potted tree nearby; intimate domestic scene suggesting migration, memory, and stillness.

Painting Memories: Monilola Ilupeju’s Journey Through Belonging, Lineage, and Arrival

In this intimate conversation with artist and author Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, we explore the emotional landscapes of arrival, memory, and intergenerational connection. Speaking from her exhibition Musafiri – Of Travellers and Guests at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Ilupeju reflects on the quiet rituals that shape her practice, the tension between displacement and belonging, and how painting becomes an act of care, vulnerability, and ancestral remembrance.

Luïza Luz
A group of diverse dancers wearing flowing white garments pose in a dynamic formation in a sunlit field, blending fashion, movement, and surrealism.

Moving Art in Contemporary Photography – An Interview with Eliška Sky

Surrealism, saturated color, and a touch of humor define the visionary world of Eliška Sky — a photographer and art director creating vibrant dreamscapes that challenge beauty norms and embrace joy, movement, and sustainability. Sky's work explores body positivity and futuristic aesthetics through a lens that is both playful and deeply intentional. In this interview, she reveals the inspirations behind her bold visuals, her creative process, and how she blends imagination with purpose to craft art that speaks to the future.

Roberta Fabbrocino
A still from The Village Next to Paradise showing a man in a brown cap and blue jacket sitting beside a young boy wearing a box with eyeholes on his head, against a bare wall.

A Look Into This Year’s Arab Film Festival ‘ALFILM’ in Berlin

The 16th Arab Film Festival Berlin (ALFILM) casts a daring gaze into the past and future with its spotlight on "Canceled Futures, Endless Pasts"—a theme that unearths archival ghosts and imagines alternative realities through speculative fiction. With a compelling lineup that includes To a Land Unknown and The Village Next to Paradise, this year’s festival bridges personal memory and political struggle, offering cinematic stories from across the Arab world that challenge dominant narratives and invite audiences to rethink what could have been.

Amany Hassan
In the month of International Women’s Day, we celebrate the voices that speak for intersectional feminism and sacred rebellion. Céline Semaan’s “A Woman is a School”, published by The Slow Factory, calls us to reclaim our bodies, our stories, and our collective wisdom. A reminder of the power of language to emancipate us in times of struggle.

Mind, Body, Language: How the Book “A Woman is a School” Rewrites Rebellion

Language is power. In the month of International Women’s Day, we celebrate the voices that speak for intersectional feminism and sacred rebellion. Céline Semaan’s “A Woman is a School”, published by The Slow Factory, reclaims language and the body as sacred vessels for eco-liberation and justice. Her words call us to action: it's time to stand together in solidarity for justice and collective healing. A reminder of the power of language to emancipate us in times of struggle. None of us is free, until all of us are free.

Luïza Luz