BREAKINGNEWS : #BADNEWS

©Guillaume Bassinet

Conflagration of our universe in the night of the Friday 6th of July 2018: A few weeks ago, the studios Bull Doff & Jah Gal were victims of a fire that destroyed their place of creativity and effervescence.

In this space, we wrote beautiful pages of the story of our lives, a shared story that unfolded both internationally and in Dakar’s creative space. We have worked together while, at the same time, retaining a freedom which has allowed us to explore new paths and universes, thereby fostering an innovative and dynamic urban creativity.

The blaze destroyed this shared history, our achievements, our current and upcoming projects, but it came short of taking our creativity away.

Overcoming the shock of the blaze and our sadness, we have decided to rebuild our laboratory, our curiosity cabinet, and once again to give birth to new stylistic forms.

Between inertia and burst, we made a choice: to reemerge from our ashes. In this battle, we need your support. It will give us the strength to get up again, the courage to continue, and allow us to reestablish the emotional dialogue that has brought us together for so many years. Today, we need to turn the worry, pity and sadness into more positive feelings, and regain access to your sensitivity through optimism, joy, wonder, and love.

May our hope be CONTAGIOUS !!!

©Guillaume Bassinet

BULL DOFF

BULL DOFF was born in 2010 right after both designers, Laure Tarot & Baay Sooley met, in Dakar.

A city that they like to call their refuge. Quoted in perpetual mutation, animated by a singular urban trance and incessant producer of ideas and desires, Dakar will naturally become the fundamental source of inspiration of the brand.

The everyday street, made up of those who inhabit a young and modern Africa; both rooted and changing, as well as the cultural mix of both designers, are undoubtedly the artistic signature of these two storytellers.

More than just dressing us, they are telling us their stories.

Aiming to fuse materials and codes, by daring to approach or break, mix, re-invent, and give both aesthetic and narrative meaning to what they offer to wear, see and hear.

Imigongo Fashion Show

JAH GAL

Doulsy is an African stylist and fashion designer of Senegalese origin. In his work, Doulsy can easily start with no preliminary concept, and will advance freely and holistically. By nature futurist and avant-gardist, his tastes sometimes push him towards styles and looks that oppose one another. Whether it’s in his choice of recycled materials or recuperation of forms and colours, he loves surprising and unexpected juxtapositions. Tradition and modernity, femininity and masculinity, basic and glamorous are all combined…Doulsy gives life to that which is dead.

Doulsy is someone who is full of life, and who is in touch with his Baye Fall culture. He started off working in accessories, and then moved on to clothing, in order to have the freedom to create more original and explorative pieces. It was through giving a new life to old and discarded items that the label Jah Gal was born…the fresh unisex brand. The name makes reference to a concept according to which liberty is only found through creation. It is thanks to an exploration of both the Baye Fall tradition and the urban milieu within which he grew up that Doulsy decided to throw himself into this creative adventure.

Jah Gal combines haute couture and street culture.

Portrait

SAVE Bull Doff & Jah Gal