Ib Kamara

IB Kamara, pronounced I.B. (born 1990) is a Sierra Leone-born, London-based stylist, journalist, musician, model and creative director. In January 2021, he was named editor-in-chief of Dazed magazine and in 2024 was announced as creative director for Off-White following the death of Virgil Abloh in November 2021.

Early life and education Born Ibrahim Kamara in Sierra Leone in 1990, Kamara and his parents took refuge with relatives in The Gambia after civil war broke out, before settling in London when Kamara was sixteen years old.

Kamara attributes his turbulent early years and growing up watching world affairs develop via CNN and BBC news programmes with inspiring his focus on current affairs.

As a stylist, Kamara was popular with the late Virgil Abloh of Louis Vuitton menswear and Off-White, and also styled catwalks and advertising campaigns for Riccardo Tisci of Burberry and Erdem. He worked with Rihanna, both for her label Fenty, and as her personal stylist when she was featured on the cover of Dazed.

In 2021, Iain R. Webb was asked by the Fashion Museum, Bath to choose garments representing 2020 for their Dress of the Year collection. Among the outfits he chose to represent 2020 was a unique dress called "A Dress of Hope", designed by Dazed art director, Gareth Wrighton and styled by Kamara out of vintage table-linens and doilies collected by Webb.

Journalism Kamara worked as a senior editor-at-large for i-D magazine from 2019 to 2021, When he received the Isabella Blow award in 2021, he said he was proud to be a beneficiary of the WWD awards' new focus on individual change-makers rather than companies and brands. Kamara and Wrighton argued that because Oprah with Meghan and Harry became an "iconic" and "definitive anti-establishment moment" that would endure in the British collective memory, it made sense to consider the dress worn by the pregnant Duchess as part of this story.