Masterclass on the Modern History of African Fashion
Explore indigenous textiles and craft heritage in Africa, and their transformation since the late 20th Century, while celebrating the exploits of contemporary designers.
Global Fashion: A Preamble
Africa in Global fashion
Examining African Dress
Traditional dress and fashion: making Sense of it all
Sources of Dress and Fashion history in Africa
Introduction
Culture
Trade
Trans- Saharan trade
Tans-Atlantic trade
Colonization
Religion
Traditional African Religion
Islam
Christianity
Globalization
Summary
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Bark cloth
3.3 Weaving
3.3.1 Akotifahana
3.3.2 Kente
3.3.3 Shoowa / Kuba cloth
3.3.4 Aso-Oke
3.3.5 Other distinguished weaving crafts
3.4 Dyeing and Stamping
3.4.1 Adire
3.4.2 Bogolanfini (Mud Cloth)
3.4.3 Batik
3.4.4 Adinkra Cloth
3.5 Decline & Revival
3.6 Indigenous African textiles in contemporary fashion
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Jewelry
4.3 Beading
4.4 Body modification and body painting
4.5 Body marking or scarification
4.6 Body painting
4.7 Hair styles and headdresses
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Post-colonial African Fashion: A Hyper-lapse of Style
5.3 Cosmopolitanism and African fashion
5.4 Assimilation and Emulation of the 60s and mid 70s
5.5 The late 70s and 80s
5.6 90s and 2000s
5.7 Africa in 21st Century Fashion
5.7 Africa fashion iconography of the 21st century
5.8 Wax Prints in African fashion identities
5.9 Wax Print: An Abridged History
6.1 Craft Revival and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage
6.2 Fola“Shade” Thomas-Fahm
6.2 Chez Julie
6.3 Chris Seydou
6.4 Oumuo Sy
6.5 Alphadi
6.6 Beyond the Canon
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Luxury, Craft and Textile Heritage