Mossi.

Paris caused Mossi Traore to change the venue of his show from the original location, a worker's boarding house and a nod to the generations of workers who came to France from Mali, where the French designer's family originates. The new venue, a gallery space in the Carrousel du Louvre, gave pride of place to this season's collaborator, the Malian painter and textile artist Ibrahim Ballo, who applied his techniques to some of Mossi's spring looks and was in the process of sketching another art piece during the presentation. Traore hopes to woo her with the warm palette inspired by the landscapes in Mali and Ballo's pointillist embroideries and bold brush strokes. [Extracted from the article]

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