African-print fashion now! : a story of taste, globalization, and style, Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, editors ; with essays and contributions by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Boatema Boateng, M. Amah Edoh, Helen Elands, Suzanne Gott, Anne Grosfilley, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Helen Jennings, Sandra Klopper, Kristyne S. Loughran, Stephan F. Miescher, Hansi Momodu-Gordon, John Picton, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, Elisha P. Renne, Victoria L. Rovine, Ken Aïcha Sy, Nina Sylvanus

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The instance African-print fashion now! : a story of taste, globalization, and style, Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, editors ; with essays and contributions by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Boatema Boateng, M. Amah Edoh, Helen Elands, Suzanne Gott, Anne Grosfilley, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Helen Jennings, Sandra Klopper, Kristyne S. Loughran, Stephan F. Miescher, Hansi Momodu-Gordon, John Picton, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, Elisha P. Renne, Victoria L. Rovine, Ken Aïcha Sy, Nina Sylvanus represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.

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African-print fashion now! : a story of taste, globalization, and style, Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, editors ; with essays and contributions by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Boatema Boateng, M. Amah Edoh, Helen Elands, Suzanne Gott, Anne Grosfilley, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Helen Jennings, Sandra Klopper, Kristyne S. Loughran, Stephan F. Miescher, Hansi Momodu-Gordon, John Picton, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, Elisha P. Renne, Victoria L. Rovine, Ken Aïcha Sy, Nina Sylvanus

Title remainder

a story of taste, globalization, and style

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, editors ; with essays and contributions by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Boatema Boateng, M. Amah Edoh, Helen Elands, Suzanne Gott, Anne Grosfilley, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Helen Jennings, Sandra Klopper, Kristyne S. Loughran, Stephan F. Miescher, Hansi Momodu-Gordon, John Picton, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, Elisha P. Renne, Victoria L. Rovine, Ken Aïcha Sy, Nina Sylvanus

Instantiates

• African-print fashion now! : a story of taste, globalization, and style

Publication

• Los Angeles, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2017

Note

Exhibition catalog of a traveling exhibition of the same name

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Part I. African-print cloth: origins and transformations
• Dutch wax classics: the designs introduced by 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
• African prints/African ownership: on naming, values, and classics
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock
• Interleaf C. African prints made in Europe
• Foreword
• Betsy D. Quick
• "Bringing fabrics to life": Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana
• Stephan F. Miescher
• Interleaf D. African prints made in Africa
• Suzanne Gott
• Interleaf E. African-prints in Abidjan: a success story
• Anne Grosfilley
• Real/Fake: brands, labels, and China in West Africa
• Nina Sylvanus
• Interleaf F. African prints made in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan
• Marla C. Berns
• Leslie W. Rabine
• Part II. Fashioning identities, expanding styles
• Portraits in print
• Leslie W. Rabine
• "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
• Acknowledgments
• Ankara fashions in Nigeria
• Elisha P. Renne
• Interleaf I. Shopping in Abidjan with Saundra Lang
• Leslie W. Rabine
• 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 Aïcha Sy
• Part III. New directions
• Vlisco; rebranding into fashion
• Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and Leslie W. Rabine
• Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran
• Interleaf K. Re-dressing the past: Vlisco's entry into post-apartheid South Africa
• Sandra Klopper
• 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
• From colonialism to hip-hop style: African-print fashion in Senegal
• Leslie W. Rabine
• In the making: African-print fashion and contemporary art
• Notes on fashioning art across Africa
• Hansi Momodu-Gordon
• Afterword: cloth, dress, and drama
• Victoria L. Rovine
• John Picton
• Introducing African-print fashion
• Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran

Control code

976036332

Dimensions

31 cm.

Extent

302 pages

Isbn

9780990762638

Lccn

2017011319

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations (chiefly color)

Record ID

.b120994483

System control number

(OCoLC)976036332