For me, the look of the Sapeurs is just amazing. It is incredible enough today to see men dressed so elegantly in capital cities like Paris or London, let alone in the Congo. Their attention to detail ...

'Gentlemen of Bacongo' — Sapeurs aren't rich, but will save up to rent and buy expensive designer labels.

Sporting only the most stylish designer labels, wearing only meticulously matched colors, the Congo’s dandies are the very embodiment of sartorial elegance. Known as “Sapeurs,” these dapper dressers ...

In the sprawling Congo suburb of Bacongo, the gentlemen of the Society for the Advancement of People of Elegance – the Sape, or 'Sapeurs’ – cut quite a dash amid their poverty-stricken surroundings.

A small suburb of Brazzaville in Congo has become an unlikely style capital, thanks to its dedicated followers of foppish fashion. Dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits, a group of ...

Daniele Tamagni photographed the Congo's "Sapeurs" for his book 'Gentlemen of Bacongo." ...