Courreges Emmanuelle - Africa: The Fashion Continent - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Gain new perspective on the vibrant and innovative world of contemporary African fashion design bursting with fresh creativity and free from reductive stereotypes. From the runway in Lagos and music festivals in Casablanca or Nairobi to the image makers of Marrakech and the influencers of Dakar or Accra a new gener ation of African fashion designers photographers bloggers and hair and makeup artists are redefining the aesthetic contours of the continent. Audacious humorous disruptive and innovative are the bywords of these young creatives who while drawing upon and reval orizing their heritage offer an ultra - contemporary perspective on fashion today. A creative revolution is spreading in an extension of continental revindication through cultural reappropriation and the invention of a visual language. Appliqu figures straight from Ghanaian Asafo flags seem to chant modern slogans as they march across silk dresses traditional textile prints give power back to women and Xhosa beaded embroidery serves as an inspiration for modern knitwear. Body - artists transform themselves into platforms for activism and photographers using clothing and finery question identity gender and environment. Urban neighborhoods are reframed in a new light through the lens of ubiquitous smartphones. This volume celebrates a creative effervescent gener ation which by breaking the rules and rewriting the narrative of the African continent is inventing a new and resolutely African chapter in the history of fashion that is now resonating across the globe.
Title: Africa: The Fashion Continent
Author(s): Courreges Emmanuelle
Publisher: Editions Flammarion
Barcode: 9782081513419
Pages: 240 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/5/2022
Category: History Of Fashion