Brazzaville's Women Suit Up in Snazzy Sapeur Threads

Since childhood, Fernand Okouo has been a fashion enthusiast, but for years her love remained restricted to selling and buying vintage clothing at markets in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo. The country’s famed, cultlike sapeurism fashion, rooted in its French colonial history, had remained closed to women for 90 years. Then, […]