With colourful make-up of bright yellows, startling whites and rich earth-reds, flamboyant accessories and extraordinarily elaborate decorations, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the designs in these images originated in the fevered mind of some leading fashionista. Yet far from the catwalks of New York, London or Paris, these looks are the sole creation of the Surma and Mursi tribes of East Africa’s Omo Valley.

Inspired by the wild trees, exotic flowers and lush vegetation of the
area bordering Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, these tribal people have
created looks that put the most outlandish creations of Western catwalk
couturiers to shame.

Out of Africa: The incredible tribal fashion show inspired by Mother Nature