Africa fashion / edited by Christine Checinska.

Contributor(s):

Checinska, Christine [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : V&A Publishing, 2022Description: 198 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781838510275 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

Fashion -- Africa

DDC classification:

746.92096 CHE 23

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	746.92096 CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100612275

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Edited by Christine Checinska , curator of African and Africa diaspora fashion at the V&A, this book offers a unique exploration of how the cultural renaissance following independence evolved into today's dynamic African fashion revolution.

"We face forward." --Kwame Nkrumah, April 7, 1960

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 reordering 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.

Includes color illustrations

Includes Bibliography and Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr. Christine Checinska is the curator of African and Africa diaspora fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A creative designer in the fashion industry for over 30 years, including for iconic brands such as Margaret Howell, she is a research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg.