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The 18-year-old from Florida, who has Haitian and Dominican roots, wore a black garment made from a sequined and beaded, lace ...
The V&A Museum opens its first African fashion exhibition. Photographs, textiles, music and art showcase the creative power and global influence of the continent's designs. With its first-ever ...
Its modern architecture complemented by latticework inspired by local Yoruba textiles, Alara, west Africa's first fashion and ...
A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...
Beauty and ingenuity can be found around every corner of a new fashion exhibition in Chicago. One mannequin wears a stunning, contemporary piece fashioned primarily from cowrie shells. Another models ...
On Monday night, Industria, a satellite hub for New York Fashion Week 2018, transformed into Wakanda, a fictional third-world African nation dreamt up by Marvel Studios for its latest film, Black ...
Combining modern silhouettes with traditional African fabrics gives a contemporary but culturally steeped look. For example, ...
A British luxury department store and an American fashion label have become the latest target of cultural appropriation allegations after featuring dresses accused of imitating traditional North ...
Shortly after taking the oath of office as South Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela stormed the uptight fashion world of statesmen and dignitaries with the most ...
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