Ib Kamara

Ib Kamara is a Sierra Leone-born, London-based stylist, editor and creative director. Raised partly in The Gambia before moving to London at sixteen, he studied fashion communication at Central Saint Martins after earlier art and design training. His emergence as a stylist was tied to editorial work that used clothing, casting and location to examine Black identity, masculinity, migration and fantasy with a strong authorial voice.

Kamara became fashion editor at large and later senior fashion editor at i-D before joining Dazed as editor-in-chief in 2021, a role he held through June 2025. In 2022 he joined Off-White as Art & Image Director following Virgil Abloh’s death and later became the label’s Creative Director, taking responsibility for collections as well as the wider visual identity. His work also extends through independent styling, image-making, film, music and multidisciplinary creative work.

For ERDEM’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection film, Kamara styled the cast moving through Epping Forest in a presentation directed and photographed by Ina Lekiewicz. The work paired ERDEM’s ornate dresses, military details and soft tailoring with a deliberately unpolished landscape and physical styling, placing Kamara inside one of the house’s key pandemic-era image projects.

Kamara treats styling as an authored image practice in which clothing, body, casting, gesture and setting carry equal weight. His work often draws on African and diasporic visual culture, club life, ceremonial dress, uniforms and luxury fashion, building images that give Black subjects expansive identities and resist narrow expectations of masculinity or glamour.

Proportion and layering are recurring tools. Tailoring can be enlarged, twisted or stacked with sportswear, domestic objects and highly decorative pieces; colour and surface are used to intensify the emotional pitch of an image. The styling frequently makes familiar garments read as characters, props or social signals while preserving the specificity of the people wearing them.

At Off-White, this visual language extends into fashion direction, campaign imagery and runway authorship. In editorial work and projects such as ERDEM Spring/Summer 2021, Kamara’s contribution is strongest when the image remains open enough for clothing, landscape and casting to generate narrative together.