Events

Experimental Runway & Fashion Show of the WAX Collection(Kumasi, Accra, Basel, Berlin)

If patterns are narratives, what happens when we reprint them? The WAX Collection reads textiles as archives of global movements: from industrial reproduction in Europe to their reinterpretations in West Africa. The starting point for this show is the historical connection between Basel and Ghana—copied fabrics, shifted meanings, circulating power relations. “WAX COLLECTION” reverses this movement.

The exhibition “WAX THE CHURCH, WAX THE FUTURE, WAX THE RICH” transforms this history into a visual intervention that understands fashion as a global space for thought: clothing speaks and contradicts. Created in collaborative processes between Accra, Kumasi, Basel, Berlin, Paris, and Palermo, the show combines experimental materials and transparent layers to form a collective textile manifesto: a catwalk as a place of aesthetic research and future imagination.

Followed by a public discussion – a GROUP50:50 production