Vintage street style Mali, now on t-shirts

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Malick Sidibé photographer worked with designer Zainab sumu to create a limited edition collection of T - shirts. Two designs of men here have its icon in the Indian textile - Design - Techniques Mali inspired photographs.

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Malick Sidibé Credit Sarah Hickson

Long before the style of street photography has become a bona fide pop phenomenon culture, it was Malick Sidibé. As a portraitist, he conquered the hope of postcolonial Mali in the 60s and 70s to live the culture of documentation youth of this country - batik print mini dresses mod, pants and all.

Now, with 80, Sidibe has borrowed some of his most representative of a new limited edition collection of t-shirts with pictures sumu Zainab, the designer behind the brand primitive and based in Boston modern. Recorded in nightclubs, parties, on the street and in the Sidibe studio portraits are a reminder that "the style is not how little pricey, it's how you use it," Sumu, the Sierra Leone born and debuted at retail fashion New York and Los Angeles before design in art school and Massachusetts to study. "It was not to show as a fashion photographer who was able, this side of the people."

Sumo selected four images of files Sidibe, 1963-1974 for the collection (two styles for men, two women) and placed the each inspired in a textile design techniques native Mali pressure. "One of the photos, pants wearing boy who probably viewing on the market. But its style, its essence feel," said sumu that set in modern primitive in October 2015 launched a collection of scarves. Brand mission is to work with artisans North and West Africa in the textile and fashion, photography and art.

Sidibe stopped working, but his small studio in Mali capital Bamako, is always an attraction. And to photograph his loose style of his subjects in his closet Africa meets the West, often textiles and tiles in the compositions beat is still an influence on the photographer and fashion designer. "You should not Google, but ask people," Sumu, who said the study visits in the past year. "Finally, we met and it was like this little museum of old cameras everywhere and all of your files."

"For many years, we bring images from the archive in the world in a different way wanted," Sidibe said in an e-mail from Bamako. "In Zainab, we found the right partner, especially because we both have the best possible connection. We hope and believe in Mali"