xuly.bët offers body accentuating, colourful fashion with african and urban influences. designer lamine kouyate is the master of the xuly.bët clan. he is friends with keziah jones and neneh cherry. lamine’s parties in paris industrial area pantin are legendary. lamine plays in the band “this is not a machine gun”, which sounds like an african version of joy division. the black fashion designer in robert altman’s prêt-à-porter film was modelled on lamine.