Africa fashion
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126563
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  alternate name: Fashion designers--Africa
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  alternate name: Textile fabrics--Africa
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  alternate name: Fashion--Africa
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  alternate name: Sustainability
abstract: "From Amanda Gorman in kente cloth (courtesy of Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton) on the cover of US Vogue, to Naomi Campbell's outings in Kenneth Ize, African fashion exerts worldwide influence. Africa Fashion explores how radical post-independence social and political re-ordering sparked a cultural renaissance across the continent. Designers such as Shade Thomas-Fahm, Chris Seydou, Kofi Ansah and Nina Gessous drew on past traditions, recovered and reinvented them and so laid the foundation for today's fashion revolution. The authors then present the work of the new generation of creatives such as Nigerian fashion designer Lisa Folawiyo, Somali visual artist Gouled Ahmed, Ghanaian woven bag maker AAKS, and Kenyan jeweler Ami Doshi Shah. Their work shows that there is no one way to be African and no single African aesthetic. The contemporary African fashion scene is as diverse and dynamic as the continent itself. With contributions from experts on cloth, fashion and cultural history as well as the voices of makers and designers, this inspiring and arresting book offers a window into one of the most innovative, exciting and thoughtful areas of fashion today"--Publisher's description.
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language: eng
subject of: Statement
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  text: Prologue / Bonnie Greer -- Introduction / Christine Checinska -- Liberation and post-independence fashions / Christine Checinska -- Five fragments of African textile history / Roslyn A. Walker -- Mid-century design: shoreline thinking and crossing Borders / Christine Checinska -- Contemporary creatives / Christine Checinska -- Orange culture: once upon a time, in Nigeria... / Monica L. Miller -- Agents of change -- Afro-fashion futures / Christine Checinska -- The place we call home: economic and cultural reclamation of African fashions / Sunny Dolat and Njoki Ngumi -- Remaining second-hand markets in Africa / Hadeel Osman -- It takes a village / Omoyemi Akerele -- Choose our own seasons, crown our own heroes / Amine Bendriouich.
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  text: In English.
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