Search Results for African Fashion

...Lauri Firstenberg Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 in its approach to evade essentialist context of 1990's fashion being on par the concept of the veil to its most THE ART OF AFRICAN...

..., today’s designers are making desirable, well-made, well-marketed collections that hang from rails all over the world. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Africa fashion textiles photography models global style A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN FASHION...

...Helen Jennings From March 30 to June 9, 2014, in the coastal town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium’s international photography festival hosted an outdoor exhibition that brought together world-renowned artists whose works examine contemporary African dress practices. The continent’s burgeoning fashion...

...Tanisha Ford This essay examines the rise in popularity of “Afro look” fashions in the 1970s. The name Afro look was given by fashion industry insiders on both sides of the Atlantic to describe clothing that featured African and African-inspired prints, textiles, and embroidery techniques. Usually...

... and negative—exposed 2012 Italian Vogue special issue on African fashion, to define, replicate, and transform the black body? there is evidence that discussion of the black body Why and how does the black body become a pur- remains relevant. How the black body is displayed chasable, global marketplace...

... with Earrings (1966), shot for twen magazine. March’s subject—the African American fashion model and actress Donyale Luna (1945–79)—is of great historical significance, not only because Luna was the first internationally acclaimed black fashion model, but also because she had an especially arresting, black...

... African American, Latin American, and African and Caribbean women and men were represented in fashion and advertising in the United States. In this interview, we discuss such topics as how race plays a part in the fashion industry, hair styling, and working with models. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal...

..., but who simultaneously has French roots. He was classified as an individual whose self-importance, impeccable dress, and manners attract attention and afford status. A black dandy can be defined as a self-fashioned gentleman who intentionally appropriates classical European fashion with an African...

..., it mirrored the traveling show’s objective to bring the best in international fashion to its audiences. The exhibition, however, explored more than stellar fashion—it attempted to reveal the fashion show’s power to deeply resonate with the African American women who comprised the majority of its audience...

... and cultural production. This article focuses on the use of the term Afropolitan , which has made its way into African artistic and literary criticism as a crossover from the fashion and popular culture arenas. In thinking about the usefulness of “Afropolitanism,” the author revisits the notion of c...

... and suturing questions of the postcolonial in relation to diasporic perspectives in twentieth-century photography. Barnor’s remarkable portraits represent significant moments in African diasporic subject formation and the cosmopolitan self-fashioning that emerged in tandem with transcultural journeys through...

...Elodie Silberstein Look Back at It (2016) is a cutting-edge interpretation of Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by African American multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. The work is a collage of magazine cuttings. The action is set in the vogue ballroom scene, a counterculture...

...Ivor Powell Meschac Gaba’s Tresses cycles draw on West African masking traditions invested with psychosocial power and magic. At the same time, they are rooted in secular fashions, specifically the styling of hair extensions. Gaba’s new Car Tresses cycle inverts the relationship between First...

... photographs, the article argues that this American–African economy works two effects. As a commodity dump, it factors into the ruin of Ugandan textile traditions. Yet as consumers select their wares from the jumbled mass of castoffs, they fashion new styles and invent new meanings. Copyright © 2013 Nka...

...A’Lelia Bundles This essay examines the role A’Lelia Walker played as a fashion and social trendsetter in Harlem during the 1920s. The only daughter of early-twentieth-century hair-care-industry pioneer Madam C. J. Walker, she carved her own niche as a patron of the arts and philanthropist...

...- sons and more, it is crucial to explore the function ashion matters. It provides and pulls tight of fashion as an underexplored facet of African dia- the threads of identity that tell others how to sporan identity formation. locate one within a culture, in relationship...

... ethnic relations in Nottingham between south of lace as a standard of beauty. Though Donkor's Asian women, now the primary textile workers in outfits depart from the glamorous model of the Britain, and dance-hall couples, who are the chil• West African fashions, he mines...

... - - - - - - - - - els sent to the bush for an Edenic African fashion shoot than religious devotees. Ever intrigued by novel ex- oticism, the fashion world has delight- edly received these images: T Maga- zine’s blog breathlessly declared “Marc Jacobs, eat your heart out” while com- paring the sect’s kilts...

... with the cultural names of people prior to the continent s restructuring into countries as we know them today. The use of textiles often associated with African fashion references the Indonesian origins of Dutch-imported batik wax prints. She challenges the definition of Black African identity through pivotal...

..., Ramouna Saunders, Jennifer Brice, Barbara Jackson, and China Machado. The rest is well-heeled history. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Versailles runway models fashion show black beauty American designers haute couture VERSAILLES ’73 AMERICAN RUNWAY...