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Omar Salam’s scarlet dress for Sukeina, its bodice hand-knotted and pierced in openwork, the design language at the centre of this dossier. | Photo: In Courtesy of Sukeina
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The Cultural Intelligence Dossier: How Africa Sets the Measure of Luxury Value

Africa is defining luxury on its own terms, through the depth of knowledge, heritage and authorship a culture holds and governs for itself. Lulu Shabell and ÀLKÉ carry that case across three chapters, where cultural intelligence becomes the measure of value.

Eva Winterer
The Silent Luxury · The Cultural Intelligence Dossier

Read the Dossier in Three Chapters

The three pieces form one continuous argument, from the macro analysis of value to the philosophy that grounds it and the debates that test it.

Chapter One · The Macro Analysis

Cultural Intelligence: Africa’s New Measure of Luxury Value

The macro case, that cultural intelligence becomes the continent’s defining luxury asset, the knowledge and authorship a culture holds rather than the materials it exports. The chapter that sets the framework for everything that follows.

Chapter Two · The Philosophy

The Architecture of Sovereignty: An Interview with Lulu Shabell

The foundational conversation with