About Griot Market

Griot Market makes clothes, objects, and printed matter shaped by Black memory, craft, and everyday use.

I’m Didier Osias, the designer behind Griot. The work usually begins with something familiar: a package in a family kitchen, a sign in a neighborhood shop, a photograph, a record, a phrase, or an object that has moved with people across places and generations. I use those references as living material—not as nostalgia—to make new things with their own life and purpose.

Griot is independent and built slowly. I research, design, print, photograph, pack, and keep learning through each release. That closeness is part of the work. It lets the objects stay specific, and it keeps the people who wear and live with them close to what gets made next.