Africa in Fashion

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