African Fashion Week Miami

AfriKin Fashion: Resistance on the Runway

Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 6 PM – 9 PMAfrican Fashion Week Miami | Miami Art Week | Art Basel | AfriKin

An Emblem of Resistance, Beauty, and Legacy

The curtain closes on AfriKin Art Fair 2025 with a spectacular grand finale: AfriKin Fashion: Resistance on the Runway. This is not simply a fashion show—it is a ceremonial reclaiming of heritage, a bold testament to resistance, resilience, and regal beauty, and the defining runway of Miami Art Week.

Resistance on the Runway reframes fashion as a site of insurgence — a space where silhouettes defy, fabrics confront, and identity becomes armor. This season, the collection channels rebellion couture: deconstructed tailoring, radical softness, and materials reimagined as tools of defiance. Every look carries the tension between elegance and uprising — corsetry that liberates rather than restricts, street-born layers elevated into urban armor, and draped structures that feel both poetic and powerful. It’s fashion not as decoration, but as declaration: a beautiful barricade against the ordinary.

Produced by Senegalese designer Rama Diaw, this transcendent evening pays homage to the legendary heroines of Nder. On March 7, 1820, these women chose fire over chains, self-determination over enslavement—a sacrifice that became a beacon of liberty and dignity. Their spirit ignites the runway as designers from across Africa and the Diaspora translate their legacy into fashion that is as powerful as it is breathtaking.

What to Expect

· Collections that blend ancestral silhouettes with avant-garde statements

· Fabrics infused with royal traditions and revolutionary spirit

· Runway artistry that transforms garments into living vessels of history

· An atmosphere of ceremony, spectacle, and cultural reclamation

Every step on the runway evokes the courage of the linguères and the soul of the Walo Kingdom—a visual narrative where fashion becomes resistance, beauty becomes power, and legacy becomes style.

The Designers

This unforgettable showcase features visionaries from across Africa and the global Diaspora, presenting work from: Congo, Jamaica, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the United States.

Why This Event Matters

More than a runway, Resistance on the Runway is the pinnacle fashion event of Miami Art Week—a night where art, culture, and couture converge at their highest expression. It offers guests the rare opportunity to witness history reborn on the catwalk, while connecting with designers whose work is shaping the trillion-dollar global African fashion industry.

Talatay Nder lives on—in fabric, in form, and in fire.