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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African Expressive Cultures SeriesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253014139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African Fashion, Global StyleDDC classification:
  • 746.92096
LOC classification:
  • TT504.6.A35 -- .R68 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.
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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.

Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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