Naïla Opiangah

I recently had the incredible opportunity to film Gabonese artist @bouenguidi (Naïla Opiangah) for @luxurylaw . Naïla‘s work explores the complexities of Black identity through the body. She created her own interpretation of the Met Gala’s “Fashion is Art” theme as a part of Law and @amiparis ’ collaboration. Really beautiful getting to witness fashion, art, and storytelling collide in such an intentional way. 🎥 @lumix S1M2 🧐 @sigmaphoto 24-70mm 🎙️ @dji mic mini

I’m forever grateful to you Law♥️ An Embrace, 2026 Acrylic and graphite on wool jacket Custom outfit by @amiparis for @luxurylaw For someone who always has a lot to say lol, I’ve been struggling to find the words to express what the past month has felt like. I can summarize it with; deep gratitude and appreciation for the dance of beautiful souls. It’s been an honor working on this project and I will cherish it for the rest of my life🫂 I also thank my dear @meriemsak being your friend is a blessing♥️

I told theee legs what to do and the long runs are longrunning!! Now Kenny gotta take me to 20K in a month!

I decide what these limbs do and so from now on, we’re training for long runs on Sundays! I said it on the internet with Mr Duckworth’ vocals so I must fully live my athlete life and run past an hour soon with at least 6 milliii and like 10:00/mi?? I’m manifesting make it happen!!

‘Future Alloys’ (2026) Charcoal and Pastel on Paper 55cm x 76cm 22in x 30in

Oh December 2025 🥹🤌🏾 Ok so bam! The first half of this year, clusterfuck of insanely intense dissociative sets of awfulness but Yo! Second half!! A reminder, you can decide what your life is about and I chose abundance. Now I’ll skip the motivational schpiel, and get right to celebrating the best month of 2025, setting the tone for 2026!!! 1 - My first full 5k, going through my 3rd of life crisis as a true self-respecting millennial of the internet, are we proud? Yes. 2 - The Conkin Mafia and our sensei (who can no longer beat us, actually, has she ever been able to? 👀) 3 - Got back to making models and the sun is shining, the world has peace and the birds chirp the music of Ndong Mboula and Coltrane 🥹 4 - I’m so proud of @amoakoboafo for empowering the kids! I’m forever grateful that I get to contribute in a tiny way, to building the next generation of tennis players who will take Ghana and Africa to the highest heights! 🥹 5 - I mean they use to dislike me but I don’t know, they kinda grow on me or whatever.. 6 - Winning is my middle name. 7 - @thebackyardclub.accra is whimsical and grounding and architectural poetry and I’m so happy I get to be part of it. @gderoche01 bravo🌹! 8 - Powered by Fear No Man a beauty of @highergroundmedia ! You better go listen and learn about Fela, and then come roforofo with meeee🎷 9 - Last conkin of 2025, again, Winning is my middle name. 10 - Tennis was played, food was eaten, sugarcane juice and matcha were drunk. 11 - Honored to have met @lemighariokwu 2 weeks after I learned about him on Fear No Man. 12 - Mr Kim, my favorite hater 🥰 13 - What’s my middle name? 14 - Sharing is caring, can your haters dance like this? 😭🤣 15 - On the subject of opps, my biggest one @mensahroland 16 - Yes, all cities do but Accra’s sunsets.. Excellent 🤲🏾 17 - Getting fed 😭 2026 I’ll be less lazy I promise! 18 - @nike I’m an athlete now, if you don’t come to sponsor me soon, @on will and you’ll miss out oh! Stop playing, Bisous! 19 - The Korean skincare lady at the Hmart in Cary, Merci 🙏🏾 20 - La Fin

April 4th would have been my grandma’s 81st birthday, but that’s when she was buried. She passed 2 months ago, on February 4th. Ngounou Latchui Thérèse de Badomka, 4.4.1944 • 4.2.2025 I want to share long paragraphs of another tragic African family story, I want to express sadness and regrets, I want to write a sort of obituary to tell the world what my grandma meant to me but I wonder to what end? The past 6 months have been so strange, I’m constantly oscillating between feeling ok and confused, feeling restless and grateful or not knowing how I’m feeling at all. So here I make another pledge, to try harder everyday to live harder everyday in honor of both my mom, and my grandma. I’m grateful I got to spend time with her and I will cherish that time forever. These are my mémé and her favorite ♥️

I lost my mom on October 4th in Portland, Maine. I was blessed to make it back to her on time and spend her last 11 hours by her side, until it was time to take her off life support. It’s been a month and I have gone from acceptance to shock, to dissociation, to disbelief, to pain, to frustration and to acceptance, in an endless loop that I’m still unable to understand. I am very sad, and I feel alone. I was my mother’s only child. I thank everyone who has reached out, showered me with love and care, and reminded me that it’s not the end. I don’t have the words to properly express the state of my mind right now, but I can say that I am trying my best. I promised my mom that I will live a life of joy, the life of joy and abundance that she deserved, I intend to do that, with wisdom and love, I pray I do. Merci pour tout maman ♥️

“(…) still red hot, still looking much like the lava it was few minutes ago—was tapped into another container and so began another journey. For this is the point where the sophisticated stuff begins, the moment when plain vanilla steel (mild steel, as it’s sometimes called) is turned into one of hundreds of different alloys, each with their own properties and specialities. Add manganese (about 1.7 per cent by volume) and you end up with hard, ductile steel, which is perfect for making train rails. Add silicon and you have an electrical steel you can use alongside the copper in a motor or transformer. Stainless steel, with its anti-rust properties, is 12 per cent chromium, with nickel sometimes added for strength(…) And on it goes—there are many hundreds of different varieties of steel alloys these days, but they all begin here, with a small dose of special ingredients plopped into a cauldron of bubbling hot metal.” - Ed Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization . There is my obsession with this book for the past month and there is the intense anxiety about well, aging, until the eve of my 30th birthday. It just happened now though; I’m alive and I didn’t magically snap into a brittle stick so, good news. I did the ceremonious reflecting that one does before the transition to a significant age, a new decade etc; and I thought of the many phases of my twenties, my many faces. I tried to find a way to process my evolution to today, to celebrate the wins and digest the losses. I tried to identify why I was so anxious about not being a twenty something anymore and I was still left with a bit of chaos. I didn’t come to a dramatic conclusion about starting fresh and embracing getting older and wiser and all the cute stuff. I did remember that I lived my best when disciplined and curious. That’s a conclusion to the mess, but like I said, not a dramatic one. . Untitled (Alloys), 2024 Oil, solvent and Charcoal on Canvas 180cm x 160cm 70 in x 63 in

we made it to #1 😂 And PS again, i’m actually a serious person 🥲

The most iconic blessing of this year, of my twenties? Of my life??? 3 months after Renaissance, I’m still in awe by the abundance of all the good things that I experienced that day. Fucking 2023 and all its tricks and my tricks and adult shits and pain and failures, and painful wins, and letting go of fear, and welcoming love, and growth and care, for myself first, and then the world; fucking 2023 dragged the sense out of me and rewarded me with love - and Renaissance summarized all of it - witchcraft!? - but that lady gave me and 60 thousand people the outlet to release so muuuch pain and welcome so muuuch love!! And here I am blessing you with baawdy and tunes because I don’t hoard blessings 😘

I’ve spent the past few days in euphoria after the military coup that happened in my country. I wrote a bit of a context for my non-Gabonese folks, considering how big of a deal this is. My heart is so full and although I feel like only my people can understand what I’m feeling, y’all could still catch the vibe 🌹 A proud Gabonese babe 🇬🇦♥️