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"Dakar fashion week", Dakar, Senegal, 9 July 2011

"Dakar fashion week", Dakar, Senegal, 9 July 2011

Credit: Vincent Boisot, France, Riva Press for Le Figaro Magazine

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A model poses in front of a tailor’s stall in the center of Dakar, Senegal during the ninth edition of the Dakar Fashion Week. She is wearing a dress by US-based Senegalese designer Yolande Ngom Mancini. The Fashion Week began in 2003, as a private venture without government support, at the initiative of former model turned designer Adama Paris and has become a leading showcase for design from across the continent.