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Black hair takes centre stage as London fashion week focuses on identity

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Priya Ahluwalia aims to switch narrative to black hair being a ‘thing of beauty’

Priya Ahluwalia’s London fashion week digital show, Parts of Me, drew inspiration from her fascination with hair as a means of expression of culture and identity. Photograph: Akinola Davies Jr/Mulberry

Apoem written in the aftermath of Syria’s six-day war of 1967, the Brixton riots of 1985 and the joy and burden of heritage have all been reflected in key shows at this year’s London fashion week as political identity took centre stage.

And that was no different in the latest show from the British designer Priya Ahluwalia, which put black hair front and centre. Afro hair continues to be political: in the workplace, in schools and in a society that doesn’t connect it to identity. It’s even the star of its own literary satire in Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl.

Priya Ahluwalia London fashion week show. — ‘The film is more a celebration of black hair and inviting people to take time and think about it in a really beautiful way,’ says Priya Ahluwalia. Photograph: Akinola Davies Jr/Mulberry

But for Ahluwalia, who has Nigerian and Indian heritage and whose show was presented via a short digital presentation, she wanted people to also think about it as a thing of beauty.

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