How The Sewing Machine Gave Power — And Fashion Cred — To African Women

An untitled photo from 1956-57.

In ‘The African Lookbook,’ Catherine McKinley bends, stretches and tears the fabric of what mainstream history has been telling us about African women in the clothing industry.

(Image credit: Seydou Keïta/SKPE—Courtesy CAAC—The Pigozzi Collection)

In ‘The African Lookbook,’ Catherine McKinley bends, stretches and tears the fabric of what mainstream history has been telling us about African women in the clothing industry.