Fashion is a religion for Lokoto Six. He even wrote a prayer to honor la Sape.
As an expression of non-violent protest against Mobutu’s ban of western fashion, Kinshasa’s sapeurs dressed themselves in European designer brands. Nowadays they are still the heroes of the slum inspiring new fashion designers all over the world.
Future Cities is an ongoing multi media project. For this project journalist Stephanie Bakker and photographer Yvonne Brandwijk discover the next generation of cities.These photo was part of an publication on July 15 2015 at the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant and also used for the web documentary Future Cities.