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Africa in Fashion

Author : Ken Kweku Nimo
Publisher : Laurence King
ISBN 13 : 9781913947958
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Africa in Fashion written by Ken Kweku Nimo and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa Fashion explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of pioneering and contemporary African brands. Part One retells the history of African fashion, exploring Africa's textile traditions, artisanship in jewelry and embellishment and the continent's role as a global resource. The second part presents a New Africa and examines the promise and potential of Africa's markets, while challenging stereotypes and the concept of European hegemony in the realm of luxury fashion. It also spotlights Africa's unique position as the global industry shifts towards a more sustainable future. The third and final part ushers the reader into the spectacular world of African fashion today. It showcases a carefully curated set of the continent's most dynamic brands and, through interviews with prominent and inspiring designers, offers rare insight into their ethos and design practice.

Africa

Author : Emmanuelle Courrèges
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2081513412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Africa written by Emmanuelle Courrèges and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain new perspective on the vibrant and innovative world of contemporary African fashion design, bursting with fresh creativity and free from reductive stereotypes. From the runway in Lagos and music festivals in Casablanca or Nairobi, to the “image makers” of Marrakech and the influencers of Dakar or Accra, a new generation of African fashion designers, photographers, bloggers, and hair and makeup artists are redefining the aesthetic contours of the continent. Audacious, humorous, disruptive, and innovative are the bywords of these young creatives who, while drawing upon and revalorizing their heritage, offer an ultra-contemporary perspective on fashion today. A creative revolution is spreading in an extension of continental revindication through cultural reappropriation and the invention of a visual language. Appliqué figures straight from Ghanaian Asafo flags seem to chant modern slogans as they march across silk dresses, traditional textile prints give power back to women, and Xhosa beaded embroidery serves as an inspiration for modern knitwear. Body-artists transform themselves into platforms for activism, and photographers—using clothing and finery—question identity, gender, and environment. Urban neighborhoods are reframed in a new light through the lens of ubiquitous smartphones. This volume celebrates a creative, effervescent generation, which—by breaking the rules and rewriting the narrative of the African continent—is inventing a new and resolutely African chapter in the history of fashion that is now resonating across the globe.

Fashion Africa

Author : Jacqueline Shaw
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470950545
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Africa written by Jacqueline Shaw and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social enterprise Africa Fashion Guide has compiled the ultimate fashion guide from Africa. The book 'FASHION AFRICA' features the must-haves from just a handful of the creme de la creme of emerging and established designers who have taken their core inspiration from all corners of Africa 'FASHION AFRICA' proudly showcases 48 designers who have been influenced by the heartbeat, the many facets of history, culture, and people of Africa to bring about an aesthetic beauty which has been artistically illustrated. Featured in the book are designers such as Jewel by Lisa, Tiffany Amber, SUNO NY, Oliberte, NKWO, Loin Cloth and Ashes, Chichia London as well as ethical manufacturers such as Mantisworld and Kibotrade. You will also find fantastic modern illustrations, stunning photography and great analysis. This book - or visual guide - is the first of its kind that provides a contemporary, informative and visual overview of the African fashion and textiles industry with an ethical perspective.

Fashion Cities Africa

Author : Hannah Azieb Pool
Publisher : Street Style
ISBN 13 : 9781783206117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Cities Africa written by Hannah Azieb Pool and published by Street Style. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into the intricacies of contemporary fashion in four African cities. From couture to street style, from luxury to thrifting, this publication provides a shapshot of some of Africa's most exciting contemporary fashion scenes in Nairobi (Kenya), Casablanca (Morocco), Lagos (Nigeria) and Johannesburg (South Africa)

Aso Ebi

Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128663
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Aso Ebi written by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Creating African Fashion Histories

Author : JoAnn McGregor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060133
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Creating African Fashion Histories written by JoAnn McGregor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.

Natural Fashion

Author : Hans Silvester
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Natural Fashion written by Hans Silvester and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of numerous voyages to Africa's Omo Valley, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma, Mursi, Hamer and Kurma tribes, who share a taste for body painting and extravagant decorations borrowed from nature. This collection of photographs captures these accoutrements.

Fashion Illustration Africa

Author : Tapiwa Matsinde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995470606
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Illustration Africa written by Tapiwa Matsinde and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Africa's rising generation of fashion illustrators who are bringing diversity to the industry. Fashion Illustration Africa is a vibrant, visually inspiring sourcebook that presents the work of 23 dynamic fashion illustrators and designers drawn from across Africa and the diaspora, whose work is shaping what has until now been a virtually non-existent commercial industry across the continent. Given a voice by social media and the internet's democratizing, border-crossing abilities, this is a young and digitally savvy generation who are also championing diversity in a global industry that tends to be defined by one model of beauty and style.

New African Fashion

Author : Helen Jennings
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791345796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book New African Fashion written by Helen Jennings and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers and brands featured include Duro Olowu, Black Coffee, Maki Oh, and Christie Brown.

African Catwalk

Author :
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868286601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book African Catwalk written by and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning Swedish photographer Per-Anders Pettersson shows a new and unexpected side of the African continent as he examines the fast growing fashion industry in Africa. This book is the first time the emerging African fashion industry has been documented in exclusive behind the scenes photographs. The series was taken in 15 countries around Africa from 2010-2015 and celebrates a new, vibrant, colourful and unexpected view of the African continent.

Contemporary African Fashion

Author : Edith Suzanne Gott
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Fashion written by Edith Suzanne Gott and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. This book puts Africa at the intersection of world cultures and globalized identities, displaying the powerful creative force and impact of newly emerging styles. Richly illustrated with color photographs, this book showcases haute couture for the African continent.--[book cover].

Not African Enough

Author : Sunny Dolat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996704823
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Not African Enough written by Sunny Dolat and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clothing and Difference

Author : Hildi Hendrickson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822317913
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Clothing and Difference written by Hildi Hendrickson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times. Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning. By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development--heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation--have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation. Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss

African Textiles

Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811841669
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book African Textiles written by John Gillow and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.

The African Lookbook

Author : Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620403544
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The African Lookbook written by Catherine E. McKinley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

African-print Fashion Now!

Author : Suzanne Gott
Publisher : PU Texas
ISBN 13 : 9780990762638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book African-print Fashion Now! written by Suzanne Gott and published by PU Texas. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog of a traveling exhibition of the same name.

Safari Style

Author : Melissa Biggs Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865653863
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Safari Style written by Melissa Biggs Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning photographic volume showcasing the stylistic diversity of Africa's foremost luxury and eco-safari lodges Safari Style unveils Africa's new generation of camps and lodges in a lavish volume of spectacular photographs. The book captures the astonishing settings and design ingenuity of the 21st-century safari destination--from the classic lodges of Kenya to the indulgent resorts of South Africa and the inspired eco-designed camps of Rwanda. Handpicked for their outstanding locations in wildlife enclaves, and for their distinctly regional architecture and interiors, these special properties represent the ultimate African encounter. Drawing on the early 20th-century tradition of the safari, they have reinvigorated the experience with access to parts of Africa previously out of bounds, notably Rwanda, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. These new camps and lodges reinvent the safari and represent a fresh approach to wildlife conservation involving local population -Bound in metallic cloth with velvet flocking