African-Print Fashion Now!

A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Herausgeber: Gott, Suzanne; Rabine, Leslie W; Quick, Betsy D; Loughran, Kristyne S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exhibition catalog of a traveling exhibition of the same name.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 304mm x 228mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9780990762638
• ISBN-10: 0990762637
• Artikelnr.: 49669445

Autorenporträt

Edited by Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and Leslie W. Rabine

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Marla C. Berns
Acknowledgments / Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and
Leslie W. Rabine
Prologue: Notes on Fashioning Art across Africa / John Picton
Introduction: Introducing African-Print Fashion / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne
S. Loughran
Part One African-Print Cloth: Origins and Transformations
1. Dutch Wax Classics: The Designs Introduced / Ebenezer Brown
Fleming circa 1890-1912 and Their Legacy / Helen Elands
Interleaf A: Design at Vlisco / M. Amah Edoh
Interleaf B: Designing for Wax Prints at ABC / Helen Elands
2. African Prints/African Ownership: On Naming, Value, and Classics /
Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Interleaf C: African Prints Made in Europe / Betsy D. Quick
3. "Bringing Fabrics to Life": Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana / Stephan
F. Miescher
Interleaf D: African Prints Made in Africa / Suzanne Gott
Interleaf E: African-Print Cloth in Abidjan: A Success Story / Anne
Grosfilley
4. Real/Fake: Brands, Labels, and China in West Africa / Nina Sylvanus
Interleaf F: African Prints Made in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan /
Leslie W. Rabine
Part Two Fashioning Identities, Expanding Styles
5. Portraits in Print / Leslie W. Rabine
6. "Life" Dressing in Kumasi: African-Print Style in "Popular" Fashion /
Suzanne Gott
Interleaf G: Nsaasaawa: Ghanaian Patchwork from the Kitchen to the Catwalk
/ Boatema Boateng
Interleaf H: From Grandmother's Dress to the Fashion Runway Chitenge styles
in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen
7. Ankara Fashions in Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
Interleaf I: Shopping in Abidjan with Saundra Lang / Leslie W. Rabine
8. Voices on the Runway: African Prints and African Fashion Designers /
Kristyne S. Loughran
Interleaf J: Claire Kane Guaranteed Wax Collection and the Photography of
Omar Victor Diop / Ken Aicha Sy
Part Three New Directions
9. Vlisco-Rebranding into Fashion / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran
Interleaf K: Re-Dressing the Past Vlisco's Entry into Post-Apartheid South
Africa / Sandra Klopper
10. Designing Futures, Virtual Communities and Fashion Weeks: Push
African-Print Fashion Forward / Helen Jennings
Interleaf L: The Eternal Return of Fashion Angelina, the Dashiki, and
Twenty-First-Century African Fashion / Leslie W. Rabine
11. From Colonialism to Hip-Hop Style African-Print Fashion in Senegal /
Leslie W. Rabine
12. In the Making: African-Print Fashion and Contemporary Art / Hansi
Momodu-Gordon
Afterword: Cloth, Dress, and Drama / Victoria L. Rovine
Notes to the Text
References Cited
Index
Contributors