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

Informationen zum Autor Victoria L. Rovine Klappentext Victoria L. Rovine is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali (IUP, 2008). Zusammenfassung Looks at fashion, international networks of style, and the world of African aesthetic expression. This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Victoria L Rovine, Victoria L. Rovine
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2015
• EAN: 9780253014092
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01409-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: African Expressive Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous