MADAME TOURÉ'S FASHION

ABIDJAN'S MADAME TOURÉ CREATES HER WARES IN A TINY

STORE AND WORKSHOP

She chats with a friend who drops in as for a salon. Small as it is, the shop is as convivial as the beauty parlors and like an Asian computer store in the 13th (please scroll down), money is not the only goal.

The client on the left observes as Madame Touré makes her headdress. The workshop is behind the man on the right.

The name is that of the record store that used to occupy the site. 

Pala Pala Music

35 rue Myrha

"Usually clothing in this spirit is sold 

as mass production on the web.

Here we imagine it ourselves and make it by hand."

-- Madame Touré

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The Catholic fabrics of "a child of God"