ISBN:
9781350179554
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (222 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
Also published in print
Serie:
Dress Cultures
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
391.009
Schlagwort(e):
Fashion History
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Clothing trade History
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Fashion design & theory
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
"With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashionscapes provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, ?fashion? and ?city? have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights."--
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. Introduction: cities and flows / (Kerstin Pinther, Basile Ndjio, Kristin Kastner) -- Part I. Histories and archives. 2. Tracing threads of time and space in conceptual fashion design in Lagos / (Alexandra Weigand, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ; 3. "Me I no be gentleman like that." Fela as Yoruba anti-aesthetic fashionista / (Okechukwu Nwafor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University) ; 4. Woman in a white tobe: historical memory, identity, and a viral image in Sudan / (Marie Grace Brown, University of Kansas) Text/Images by Mohamed El Shahed (The British Museum -- Independent Researcher) -- Part II. Materialities and aesthetic practices 5 fashionable practices of accumulation: refining textiles in Dakar / (Kristin Kastner, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ; 6 Transnational Chinese fashionscapes and the new glamour ethos in the city of Douala, Cameroon / (Basile Ndjio, University of Douala) ; 7. Dressed for architecture: fashion design and space in Lagos / (Kerstin Pinther, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) Text/Images by South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni on Fashion in Johannesburg -- Part III. Bodies and media. 8. Afro-Brazilian dress in family photo archives in Lagos Metropolis / (Frank A. O. Ugiomoh, University of Port Harcourt) ; 9. Ibrahim Kamara. The shape shifter / (Odessa Legemah, independent writer and editor) ; 10. Disobedient dress: fashion as everyday activism / (Christine Checinska, VIAD, University of Johannesburg) Text/Images by Nairobi based fashion-designers -- artists The Nest Collective, Nairobi ; 11 Epilogue / (Victoria Rovine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill).
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print
DOI:
10.5040/9781350179554
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