On sunny Sunday afternoon, House of Aama took over Nineorchard’s rooftop greenhouse for the debut of their Spring/Summer 2026 collection, “Folk Grounds.” Designed by mother-daughter duo Akua Shabaka and Rebecca Henry—storytellers, cultural archivists and designers—the show was soundtracked by ethereal Black folk songs from Minnie Riperton and Aretha Franklin. According to the show notes, “Folk Grounds” unfolded as a living ecoverse, rooted in the labor, land and enduring agrarian traditions of Black life in the Carolina South. The collection was both a narrative in motion and a tribute to the designers’ family ancestry in the American South.

The show explored collegiate wear and workwear, delicate lace dresses, bibbed silhouettes and relics of a bygone era. While the collection told a coh

See Full Page