Selly Raby Kane on otherworldly fashion in Dakar

African Design/2015/19 min/Reel № 15.001

BySelly Raby Kane

Selly Raby Kane on otherworldly fashion in Dakar

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Selly Raby Kane takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Senegal in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Selly's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane is going beyond regular aesthetics and redefining the creative energy in Dakar.

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Selly Raby Kane

Dakar/Senegal

Selly Raby Kane is a Senegalese fashion designer and a central figure in Dakar's new wave of creative practitioners.