Every dress tells a story, but in the case of Namibia’s Herero dress, it’s a 100-year-old tale of genocide, oppression, resilience, and — hopefully — redemption. In the early 20th century, 80% of the ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Eye On series takes you to a different country each month. In October we visit Namibia highlighting the country’s best and brightest people, plus framing its pressing issues in a ...

© Jim Naughten/courtesy of Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Even in a continent rich with fantastic traditional garments, the Herero tribe of Namibia stands out ...

Models pose while presenting a collection by Namibian designer McBright Kavari. The designer embraces Namibia's colonial history in his designs and gives new life to traditional attire. Photo: AFP ...

Windhoek (AFP) – From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and ...

Courtesy of the artist Herero Woman in Pink Dress, 2012, by Jim Naughten, on display at downtown Seattle’s M.I.A. Gallery starting tomorrow, through August 30th. There she is, divorced from any ...

Namibia was a German colony for just over a century and in the early 1900s the Herero and the Nama people rose up against the Germans with tragic consequences. Some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe ...

In 2011 Jim Naughten spent four months photographing the Herero tribe of Namibia. The London-based photographer drove thousands of miles through the desert, meeting and negotiating with people, ...

An elderly Herero woman in patchwork dress and pale scarf. As Herero women get older, the 'horns' of their headdresses get smaller. According to some accounts, this is to symbolize their loss of ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When European women jettisoned their ankle-length frocks and the multiple petticoats that kept the frocks full and plump, they gained ...