DANSK Magazine

Bakongo chic

If Scott Schuman had been at Thursday night’s extracurricular activity of choice, the launch of a FABULOUS new coffee table book, The Gentleman of Bakongo, he’d have surely peed his pants. An orgy of sartorial daring and riotous colour, the book features a collection of photographs by Daniele Tamagni of the sapeurs of Bakongo, a group of Congolese ‘sartorial aristocrats’ who pride European elegance and dress above all else. The ability to pull off a hot pink suit with a fire engine red bowler hat? These boys have it and you can bet that come January at the next round of menswear shows, there’ll be sapeur fever off-runway.

www.amazon.co.uk / images courtesy of Daniele Tamagni / snapshots courtesy of DANS