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African Fashion, Global Style Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253014139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TT504 .A375 2014
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Subject: African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fashion Matters; 1 Indigenous Fashion: Embroidery and Innovation in Mali; 2 Nubia in Paris: African Style in French Fashion; 3 Reinventing Local Forms: African Fashion, Indigenous Style; 4 Conceptual Fashion: Evocations of Africa; 5 Fashion Design in South Africa: Histories and Industries; Conclusion: What Fashion Shows; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles.

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