Once upon a time, there was an African princess, the descendant of a great line of kings and queens from Cameroon. When she was a young girl, she would dream of the splendours of royal costumes exhibited at festivals and ritual ceremonies. Behind the abstract prints of the fabric, she would try to decipher the secret language of the wise, imagining the link between man and Universe, foreseeing into the craftsman’s hands weaving the endless memory of time.

Ly means: connect, link and as her first name so well evokes, the style of Ly Dumas, represents the fusion between the ancestral gestures of the African craftsman and the elegance of a pure, timeless line. All of this has not remained unnoticed by journalists from all over the world.

Ly Dumas is a cultural and influential fashion designer and an inspirational role model for many young African designers. Throughout her decade-and-a-half career, she has been present in the most prestigious fashion and lifestyle publications as well as in daily and weekly newspapers such as Le Monde, L’Express, Le Figaro, The Los Angeles Post or Afrique Magazine. Extensive coverage of her collections, work, ideas, pure and innovative design, talent and elegance has graced countless pages of the most-read fashion columns of the moment. Her dresses appeared several times on the cover of Elle, Vogue, Brune, Madame Figaro, Divas and Amina Magazines, where the pieces signed by Ly Dumas have shone in large pictorials.