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Entry: 18:45
Fashionshow Start: 20:00

Afro Fashion Circle is a group of three artists and fashion designers with an Afro-diasporic history. They draw attention to unbalanced power structures and colonialist consequences.

Each artist has been able to develop his own style through different training and experience.

On the evening of March 26, 2023, a fashion show will take place in the „Grüner Salon“ of the Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2, where the artists will present different perspectives, aesthetics and forms. The focus of the show is Afro fashion, with all its facets, edges and diversity.

Our designers have an ethical and moral compass in their collections, which is visualized in the artistic elaboration.

The collections are influenced by experiences with everyday racism, sustainability as a cycle – in a circular world, every material is part of the circle, culture is a luxury good and the weaving of bodies.

The evening creates space for black empowerment and people who want to show solidarity with this event.

Designers // Fashionshow // 8 pm

IamCoco // https://www.instagram.com/corinnakupka/
Fashion designer and event manager from Munich, with roots in Guadeloupe, presents her third streetwear couture collection and has already come damn close to the goal of sustainability – this time she will do it again with a dance fashion show and her IamCoco Model Army.

Rio Diallo // https://www.instagram.com/rio.diallo/
Rio Diallo, born in 1995 in Togo, West Africa, is an artist, painter and designer. On his life journey, he used creativity not only as a means to survive the difficult times of his life, but also to express his ideas visually. He developed his first fashion brand „Rio Diallo“, which combines the longing for his homeland with experiences from his everyday life in the cosmopolitan city of Berlin.

Zoë // https://www.instagram.com/thezoegram/
is a Ugandan-German fashion designer from Berlin. In her projects, she deals with topics that move her socially critically. She attaches great importance to materials and material manipulation. She is currently studying Art in Context at the UDK and is a consultant at the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

Bino Byansi Byakuleka // https://www.instagram.com/mc3barts/
Formerly known as Petros Byansi from Nakabaale, Luuka- Uganda. Now he lives in Neukölln, Berlin, Germany. He holds a degree in Industrial Arts and Design from Muteesa 1 Royal Institute, Mengo, Kampala, Uganda. During the academic years from 2003 to 2005 he studied iconography at the St. Arsenios Monastery of Ormylia, Thessaloniki, Greece. Today he is a member of the founding class and guest student at the Weißensee Kunst Hochschule Berlin, where he offers courses in weaving, fashion design and screen printing.

Aftershow // 10:15 pm

Pharu Tha Bushdoctor
Young Lychee
Tba

Support Acts

Lois Alexander
Larri
+ special guests