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... 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...

... innovation allowed a nation or region of the world to position itself as the model of modernity and cultural sophistication. Many newly independent African nations were eager to reposition themselves on the world stage, and fashion became one way to do so. In apartheid-era South Africa, such politics were...

...Deborah Riley Draper Not many moments in time change the course of history and evolution of an industry at the same time. And even fewer of these moments can be attributed without exception to a group of black fashion models. In this essay I discuss my award-winning documentary Versailles ’73...

... 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...

... and body types by skilled seamstresses and tailors, resulting in a secondary informal economy driven by the selling of used clothing. This article discusses a novel business model implemented by a Toronto-based fashion startup in 2010 in an effort to support Haiti’s apparel manufacturing sector and also...

... relations between Peary and Henson, thetic provides a very different approach, challeng- though in unexpected ways. This comes through ing some foundational assumptions of the sublime in Julien’s focus on a black female fashion model, as overwhelming and humbling, since he offers us Vanessa...

... in full (August — four successive weekends). color. James Sepyo and Ademola participate in the Stu- With star fashion model Pat Evans and Ollie dio Museum exhibition African-­American Exten- Johnson, Weusi member Bill Howell opens Pamoja sions, incorporating...

...-turned-amateur-fashion-model in that Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also pro- extraordinarily Fanonian flow that will become the vides an important frame of reference, overlapping hallmark of Barnor’s practice. and suturing questions of the postcolonial in rela...

... and conceptually echoes voguers s transgression of high fashion in competitions. My analysis contextualizes the birth of vogue aesthetic in America s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic capitalism. Voguing is a dance form that derives its name from the poses of fashion models in Vogue magazines...

... and models often create the illusion that the closed world of high fashion is accessible to everyone. It is not true now and it was particularly not so when Johnson...

..., 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...

... of the inner self but a naive admi• Fashion in 1994 for the French label Comtne des ration of one's own body. Fosso is looking only at Garcons) since usually photographer and model the corporeal surface accessible to photography are not one and the same person and neither and doesn't try...

...Anthony Barboza; Barry Maxwell The musician Miles Davis, subject of a group of portrait photographs by Anthony Barboza, presents himself in the photographs as an armature of fashion objects. With reference to the work of Walter Benjamin and Giacomo Leopardi, this introduction to Barboza’s...

... readings of cultural practices framed with the production of modern cultural extreme, non-liberatory, and oppres• FASHION by dialectical models of Western cate• practices earlier in the century in the sive measure. Another contemporary...

... 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...

..., this moment appears as one of genuine freedom, but it is not without complications from within the colonial and the (white) state that both sides needed to negotiate. At its heart is a work of art that looks to escape the European modernist fashioning of Africa that placed its art as a primitivist (timeless...

... in innovative, colorful street fashion. Her vibrant snapshots, with an attention to styling and atti- tude comparable to a Vogue feature editorial, pro- vide a glimpse of the fashionable roots from which Afropolitanism partially grew. As beautiful as they are, the subjects are not models; they are real people...

... in a similar fashion of the former, "The White Issue" depicts the front cover of Vogue, with a model in front of a landscape which colors could be reminiscent of the reddish-brown tones of African soil. Here, the artist con• tinues to emphasize the metaphors schemed by consumerism inviting the view...

... and art academies were also established, often fashioned on the western art education• al model, in the 1940s or earlier. Beyond this, the most important factor in the rise of African modernism has been the nationalistic cultural resurgence that swept many newly independent African countries where...

... participate in these constructions, and they, too, modeled for its lens• es and became captive audiences for its commer• cial advertising...