{"product_id":"african-print-fashion-now-a-story-of-taste-globalization-and-style-9780990762638","title":"African-Print Fashion Now!: A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Suzanne Gott | Kristyne S. Loughran | Betsy D. Quick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fowler Museum at UCLA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfrican-Print Fashion Now!\u003c\/i\u003e introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: \"popular\" African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking, transnational, and youth styles favored in Africa's urban centers. All feature the colorful, boldly designed, manufactured cotton textiles that have come to be known as \"African-print cloth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book tells the global stories of these textiles--the early history of the print cloth trade in West and Central Africa, the expansion of production following independence movements, and the increasing popularity of Asian-made print cloth today. Popular African styles from Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Senegal are featured, as well as groundbreaking runway fashions by some of Africa's most talented couturiers: Ituen Basi, Gilles Touré, Lanre da Silva Ajayi, Titi Ademola, Lisa Folawiyo, Dent de Man, Adama Paris, Patricia Waota, Ikiré Jones, and Afua Dabanka. Black-and-white studio portraits illuminate print fashions of the 1960s and 1970s, while works by contemporary artists incorporate African print to convey evocative messages about heritage, hybridity, displacement, and aspiration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary photographs by Omar Victor Diop, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, and Hassan Hajjaj; paintings by Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga; and a mural by graffiti artist Docta suggest the ever-present role of fashion in African life. Throughout the volume, African-print fashions are considered as creative responses to key historical moments and the imaginings of Africa in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fowler Museum at UCLA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889832050839,"sku":"9780990762638","price":4851.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780990762638.webp?v=1781177921","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/african-print-fashion-now-a-story-of-taste-globalization-and-style-9780990762638","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}