Anne Grosfilley is a French anthropologist specialized in African textiles and fashion. Beside her PhD, she did work experience in English museums like the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Museum. She won a Millennium Award from Oxfam for the project "African Textiles in The Community".
Through 20 years of field work in various countries of Africa, she has gathered a huge collection of fabrics and photographs. She has also acquired a fabulous collection of thousands of samples from the wax print company A. Brunnschweiler & Co. With reference books (Afrique des textiles, Edisud, 2004) and many articles in journals, Anne Grosfilley has gained a renowned expertise as a consultant for international brands such as Edun NY. She is regularly invited on television and radio, and has curated prestigious exhibitions, e.g. "Textiles of Africa" at the Black Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal, in 2010.
She has always paid a special attention to the young public through workshops, because she considers transmission as a way to educate the future generation to the diversity of the world. She recently published an A to Z to discover wax designs and African cultures (Abécédaire du wax, Grandir, July 2015).