Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads history L’Occitane has always believed in

L’Occitane has always believed in speaking the language of the land

the modern to the Palaeolithic

photographs by the artist An-my Lê

in five wide-ranging essays Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants

and airing out the attic

Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads history L’Occitane has always believed inExploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Apertures Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in