Marni x No Vacancy Inn Campaign Images Shot in Accra, Ghana by Derrick Ofosu Boateng

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Marni x No Vacancy Inn Campaign Images Shot in Accra, Ghana by Derrick Ofosu Boateng

Fresh off Marni Creative Director Francesco Risso’s collaboration with Erykah Badu and Vogue’s March 2023 deep dive into the twosome, AOC turns our focus to another Marni Jam series Marni x No Vacancy Inn.

Both collabs are on Marni’s Instagram now, but we will also pull them in their entirety onto AOC for archiving. Forgive me, but Virgil Abloh is on full blast today, and is probably just driving my brain and I’m along for the ride.

AOC may not be hip, but I am chill, so it all works out.

In the same spirit of low-tech, color-saturated Ghana-inspired images, Marni x No Vacancy Inn rolls in with campaign images shot in Accra, Ghana by Derrick Ofosu Boateng [IG], who calls himself “a Ghanaian photographic hueism artist and designer.’

Like Prince Gyasi, Boateng is shooting with an iPhone and then whipping up his techno-colored image souffle.

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Big Miss but Africa Archives Coming! Naomi Campbell's African Odyssey by Prince Gyasi

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Big Miss but Africa Archives Coming! Naomi Campbell's African Odyssey by Prince Gyasi

In Spring 2021, AOC made a mistake, not posting this summarized archive Naomi Campbell by Prince Gyasi post that controls all the tags into our complex system of Models and Photographers Archives into their summary pages.

Bad Anne!!!!

Mistakes happen, but this was was a big miss, given AOC’s commitment to all matters related to Africa and Africa-connected creatives, history and also political issues.

Naomi’s Madame Figaro narrative references the ALÁRA Lagos Africa luxury concept store [IG], designed by the pre-eminent architect David Adjaye, who describes his vision for West Africa’s first signature and lifestyle store.

There is no debate that in 2023 Adjaye and associates is one of the most influential architectural firms across the world.

Naomi’s Madame Figaro photographer Prince Gyasi doesn’t have a strong presence in fashion photography but the artist’s Instagram is a big wow!

Gyasi shoots on his iPhone and is very color-driven — as is AOC.

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