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Bakary Diallo

Stylist · Designer · Creative director

Paris

@skinstyling_·@skinandbones

Bakary Diallo against a mesh shutter, eyelet cap, vest and suspenders, hands in his pockets

Bakary Diallo grew up with a mother who collects archive, designer and otherwise, and a style of his own has mattered since. What he wears transcribes his mindset and his values, and he dresses a model or a talent from the same ground: the style is there, his job is to draw it out.

He came up assisting on covers and campaigns and now leads his own. When the right piece is still an idea, he cuts it himself.

Selected work

EditorialICON MENA, June cover

  • ICON MENA cover: a model seen from behind in a distressed denim trench against an engraved sky
  • ICON MENA cover: a model in sand-toned tailoring seated on a carved medallion, holding a globe
  • ICON MENA cover: three models in white, grouped around a trophy on a plinth

Editorial · FilmThe Book of Ingram, KALTBLUT

  • A model in a boned bodice and hooped headpiece, lit hard against black
  • A model in a strapless black bodice and pearl collar, red paint spattered across the front
  • A model seated in a bank of red tulle, flowers at the head
  • A veiled figure in a long dark gown, one arm raised across the face
  • Two veiled figures, one in black and one in white, standing in a single shaft of light

Artist projectPeso Shabba, Greenlight cover

  • Peso Shabba seated on plastic sheeting against a wet pink ground, all in black
  • Peso Shabba on the floor in leather and shades, sheeting drawn up behind him
  • Peso Shabba pulling a labelled jacket up over his head, chain and grill showing
  • Peso Shabba hooded and turned away, a paper-wrapped armchair beside him
  • Peso Shabba seated in a fur-collared leather jacket, boot up on a broken chair

CampaignMake Africa Great Again, cap campaign

  • Two figures in tactical black and the cap, one standing over the other on a white ground
  • A blown-out flash frame in a stockroom, one figure pinned against the shelving
  • Two figures in plate carriers, faces hidden under the red and the white cap
  • Overhead frame of two figures in white and black among steel racking
  • Two figures against a raw concrete wall in a basement, caps low

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