The Storyteller In Fashion
Feb 11, 2022
3 minutes
BY INAARA GANGJI
AFRICAN FASHION IS MORE THAN JUST patterns and traditional garb, and contrary to popular opinion, is modern and evolving. This is how fashion entrepreneur Nisha Kanabar, a fourth generation Tanzanian and graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York, sees it and is bent on changing the prevailing narrative from her base in Dar es Salaam.
When she started her career, this view of African fashion, or any, was almost non-existent, or if anything, painted with broad brushstrokes. There was almost a need to deconstruct Eurocentric standards,
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