When Grace Wales Bonner opened her A/W16 show, it was with a young man perched atop a stool delicately playing a kora. The stool sat upon a miniature wooden stage, to which each of the models bowed before making their runway procession. Little crucifixes were placed next to the musician's bare feet, and a wooden contraption inspired by Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez supporting his stringed instrument. He was, in the words of the accompanying show notes, “a griot”: a man who “acts as…
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