Contemporary African Fashion (African Expressive Cultures) by Suzanne Gott

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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)

Foreword by Joanne B. Eicher
Acknowledgments

Introduction / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran

Part 1. Fashion within the African Continent
1. The Ghanaian Kaba: Fashion That Sustains Culture / Suzanne Gott
2. The Visual City: Tailors, Creativity, and Urban Life in Dakar, Senegal / Joanna Grabski
3. Secondhand Clothing and Fashion in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen
4. Fashion, Not Weather: A Rural Primer of Style / Elisabeth L. Cameron
5. Contemporary Wedding Fashions in Lagos, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne

Part 2. African Fashion Designers
6. African Fashion: Design, Identity, and History / Victoria L. Rovine
7. Using the Past to Sculpt the Costume of the Future: An Interview with Kandioura Coulibaly / Janet Goldner
8. Intersecting Creativities: Oumou Sy's Costumes in the Dakar Landscape / Hudita Nura Mustafa
9. From Cemetery to Runway: Dress and Identity in Highland Madagascar / Rebecca L. Green

Part 3. African Fashion in the Diaspora
10. La Sape Exposed! High Fashion among Lower-Class Congolese Youth: From Colonial Modernity to Global Cosmopolitanism / Didier Gondola
11. Have Cloth-Will Travel / Kristyne Loughran
12. Dressing Somali (Some Assembly Required) / Heather Marie Akou
13. Translating African Textiles into U.S. Fashion Design: Brenda Winstead and Damali Afrikan Wear / Leslie W. Rabine

Further Readings
List of Contributing Authors
Index

  • Condition: New
  • EAN: 9780253222565
  • UPC: 9780253222565
  • ISBN: 9780253222565
  • Book Title: Contemporary African Fashion (African Expressive C
  • Item Length: 22.6 cm
  • Publication Year: 2010
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Name: Contemporary African Fashion
  • Item Height: 229mm
  • Author: Kristyne Loughran, Suzanne Gott
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Item Width: 216mm
  • Subject: Anthropology, History
  • Item Weight: 816g
  • Number of Pages: 248 Pages

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