By Shelcy Joseph ·Updated July 18, 2024
Centuries of cultural erasure and a historical lack of capital account for the underrepresentation of African fashion in mainstream media, but Farai Simoni is on course to correct that. The Zimbabwean-born, Brooklyn-based entrepreneur runs The Narrativ House, a concept store in Bed-Stuy championing designers from the diaspora. Simoni sources these makers, whom she calls “The Narrators”, from all over the continent. They include jewelry sculptors,
