XULY.Bët – Funkin’ Fashion Factory 100% Recycled
In the organizer's words:
The story of Lamine Badian Kouyaté (* 1962 in Bamako, Mali) and his label XULY.Bët, founded in 1991, is a story of resistance, vision and love for fashion - characterized by migration, diversity and a radical idea of sustainability, long before this word became a trendy term. Growing up in Bamako, Kouyaté was influenced by his grandmother, who processed fabrics and gave them a second chance. For him, this is not a fad, it is an attitude. When he came to Paris in the 1990s, he brought precisely this perspective with him: Clothing as a memory, resource and tool to strengthen identity and express social belonging - at a time when environmental awareness was hardly an issue in the European fashion industry. For Kouyaté, upcycling is an artistic practice. His fashion moves between streetwear and couture, between everyday life and the runway - it is worn by stars such as Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Halle Berry and Viola Davis, and is celebrated in international exhibitions. Kouyaté revolutionized the Paris fashion scene with guerrilla fashion shows. In 1994, director Robert Altman paid tribute to him in the film Prêt-à-Porter, played by Forrest Whitaker.
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