19/08/2025
“A Meeting of Cultures – Fashioning North Africa” is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, which to date has focused mainly on American and European designers.
North Africa has always been a crossroads of cultures. To illuminate the myriad facets of the local fashion and fashion industry, this comprehensive publication showcases the works of contemporary fashion designers along with photography by fashion photographers, journalists and social media influencers. Organised around three themes, “Disruptors”, “Our Land”, and “Threads”, the catalogue showcases fashion practitioners from across North Africa who work to retain cultural distinctiveness while adapting to contemporary concerns ranging from sustainability to gender identity.
👉 The catalogue is available online, and in your favorite local bookstore. From September 5 to May 10, you can visit the exhibition “A Meeting of Cultures” at .
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Nordafrika war schon immer ein Ort, an dem sich Kulturen begegneten. Um die unzähligen Facetten der lokalen Mode und Modeindustrie zu beleuchten, zeigt »A Meeting of Cultures – Fashioning North Africa« die Arbeiten zeitgenössischer Modeschöpfer*innen zusammen mit den Fotografien von Modefotograf*innen, Journalist*innen und Social-Media-Influencer*innen. Unter den drei Leitmotiven »Disruptors«, »Our Land« und »Threads« stellt dieser Katalog Modedesigner*innen aus ganz Nordafrika vor, deren Arbeit durch die Beibehaltung kultureller Besonderheiten und die Anpassung an zeitgenössische Belange wie Nachhaltigkeit und Geschlechteridentität bestimmt ist.
👉 »A Meeting of Cultures« gibt es überall, wo es Bücher gibt.
