How a Namibian fashion designer is keeping the Herero traditional dress alive


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Models pose while presenting a collection by Namibian designer McBright Kavari. The designer embraces Namibia's colonial history in his designs and gives new life to traditional attire. Photo: AFP

From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and a link to German colonisers accused of genocide.

McBright Kavari's sewing room is piled high with seemingly ordinary fabric that he transforms with labour and skill into elegant and voluminous dresses called ohorokova.

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