Marni x No Vacancy Inn Campaign Images Shot in Accra, Ghana by Derrick Ofosu Boateng AOC Fashion

Fresh off Marni Creative Director Francesco Risso’s collaboration with Erykah Badu and Vogue’s March 2023 deep dive into the twosome, AOC turns our focus to another Marni Jam series Marni x No Vacancy Inn.

AOC always admits how hip we aren’t, so check out the roving collective No Vacancy Inn, cofounded by Tremaine Emory and Acyde, in a W Magazine 2017 focus on their story. Also, see No Vacancy Inn IG.

More recently, Highsnobiety talked to the No Vacancy Inn trio in fall 2022 about ‘Born Cancelled’.

Both collabs are on Marni’s Instagram now, but we will also pull them in their entirety onto AOC for archiving. Forgive me, but Virgil Abloh is on full blast today, and is probably just driving my brain and I’m along for the ride.

AOC may not be hip, but I am chill, so it all works out.

Discovering an important not-archived 2021 post this morning, Naomi Campbell's African Odyssey by Prince Gyasi for Madame Figaro March 26, 2021, the day is in total upheaval.

Naomi’s Madame Figaro photographer Prince Gyasi doesn’t have a strong presence in fashion photography but the artist’s Instagram is a big wow!

In the same spirit of low-tech, color-saturated Ghana-inspired images, Marni x No Vacancy Inn rolls in with campaign images shot in Accra, Ghana by Derrick Ofosu Boateng [IG], who calls himself “a Ghanaian photographic hueism artist and designer.’

Like Gyasi, Boateng is shooting with an iPhone and then whipping up his techno-colored image souffle.

Models include Welbert Adjei Darko, Kubah Acquah, Emmanuel Boateng, David Hammond, Jethro Mortin, Herbert Adjei Darko, Eugenia Otoo, Anne Mike Foye, and Akosua Attakorah.

Marni x No Vacancy Inn creative inputs include Marni’s Creative Director Francesco Risso and from No Vacancy Inn Tremaine Emory [IG], Acyde, and Brocky Marciano [IG].