With traditional fabrics, Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic | Reuters

By Nneka Chile

LAGOS (Reuters) – Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday.

His material of choice is Aso-oke, a hand-woven cloth indigenous to the Yoruba people and historically used on special occasions.

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