'Legendary Glamma': How Zambia's Margret Chola became a fashion icon

A Zambian woman in her 80s is adored for modelling in striking and playful fashion photographs.

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Margret Chola, who is in her mid-80s, is known to the world as "Legendary Glamma" - and adored by 225,000 Instagram followers for her striking and playful fashion photographs.

"I feel different, I feel new and alive in these clothes, in a way that I’ve never felt before," Ms Chola tells the BBC. "I feel like I can conquer the world!"

The fortnightly Granny Series was created in 2023 by her granddaughter Diana Kaumba, a stylist who is based in New York City.

She came up with the idea when she was visiting Zambia to mark the second anniversary of the death of her father - the person she says inspired her passion for fashion because he always dressed well.

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