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Kinshasa - The SAPE scene

We're not ones to toot our own horns, but the LA Times recently splashed a story on the Congolese cult of haute couture, La Societé des Ambianceurs et des
Personnes Élégantes (S.A.P.E.), which we reported on nearly four years ago. Now, as we were saying, we're not writing this to gloat and say how ahead-of-the-curve we are and pat ourselves on the back and get everyone to applaud our greatness - we would never do that. We're just saying that we are SO over Sapeurs, we've already got other African fashion cults to obsess about.