Gladys May Casely-Hayford alias Aquah Laluah (11 May 1904, Axim - October 1950, Freetown) was a Sierra Leonean writer, daughter of Adelaide Casely-Hayford.
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Promoting the preservation of Sierra Leone national identity and cultural heritage, in 1925 she wore a traditional African costume to attend a reception in honour of the Prince of Wales, where she created a sensation.
Charlie has styled musicians varying from Hip-Hop artist Nas to UK band The xx and contributed to international publications from GQ Style to Clash magazine.
The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.
He has advised the United Nations and the Canada Council, Council for Culture of the Dutch and Norwegian Arts Councils, and commissioned to develop the future audience vision for the Tate family of galleries.
The collections have been sold in prestigious stores and select shops throughout Japan such as Beams; United Arrows; Edifice; History; Deuxième Classe; Tomorrowland; Robehouse; and Dressterior.
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From 1993 to 2004 his collections were distributed through Look Inc., also the distributors for Marc Jacobs' Look.