Designer Akua Shabaka talks all things hair for this week's TextureDiaries, including how experimenting with different braiding styles helped her reclaim her culture and develop a love and enjoyment for who she was.
is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair rituals, products, and the biggest lessons they’ve learned when it comes to affirming their beauty and owning their unique hair texture.
At New York Fashion Week in February, designer Akua Shabaka and her mother Rebecca Henry presented their latest collection, Bloodroot, for. Inspired by the bloodroot herb, which has historically been used as a tool of protection for families in the southern Creole culture, models walked the runway wearing Victorian lace dresses and military workwear. It was the culmination of a whirlwind few months for Shabaka, which saw herand featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021.
In her earliest memories, Shabaka had locs. She especially enjoyed doing bantu knots to make them curly, and wearing barrettes her mom would put in as decoration. “At the time that was all I knew. My father and mother had long locs, as well as my siblings and my surrounding community,” she says. “It wasn't until I went to public elementary school that I realized the other little girls didn't look like me and I did not have pigtails and little bollies.
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