Dress Me Beautiful - A History of Style & Resistance

Dress Me Beautiful - A History of Style & Resistance

Black History Month: Fashion Installation featuring Urban Zulu

Step into an evening of Stories and Style at RJC Dance, Chapeltown Road, where the history of the Congo’s landscapes provides a multi-sensory experience.

At its heart, Urban Zulu, the South African fashion house founded by Congolese-born designer Papy Kaluw, features bold sustainable designs that honour La Sapologie—a movement where elegance defies oppression. His work reframes African fashion as a form of political protest, as well as ecological, poetic, and resilient.

Curated by Dr Khadijah_Ibrahiim

Dress Me Beautiful explores fashion as a cultural archive, garments as carriers of memory, and dress as both narrative and testimony.

The event features contributions from artists,

Rhian Kempadoo-Millar - on arts and sustainability

fashion accessories by Ebony Milstone and more.

A celebration of survival, creativity, and a sustainable future—woven into each story, each artist, and each garment.