Research & Heritage: West African Fashion Designer Milcos Badji

This episode is a conversation with Milcos Badji who is a Senegalese fashion designer from Dakar. His eponymous brand Nio Far by Milcos means "We are together" in Wolof.   The design ethos of Milcos is deeply connected to heritage with research at the center of his artistic process. He uses a mud based fabric known as ‘Bògòlanfini’ (often referred to as Bògòlan) or mud cloth that gives his fashion designs cultural depth, rich in meaning and "the quintessence of authenticity".  The latest hand made collection of Nio Far by Milcos is named "Po Tolo" inspired by the Dogon tribe central to Malin in West Africa. The legends of the Dogon tribe lies in their unique ability to give precise locations of astronomical bodies and phenomena for centuries pre-dating modern science.  Nio Far by Milcos is unisex and handmade.  Orders can be placed on-line at https://www.niofarbymilcos.com/ .