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African Fashion
1/11/11
With current
fashion debates centering around hot topics such as Milan Fashion
Week's scheduling conflicts and who will replace John Galliano at
Christian Dior, fresh, young designers often gets lost in the shuffle.
As the fashion industry is notoriously western-centric (Milan, Paris,
London and New York are unarguably the most prominent fashion weeks
in the world) it is important to look outside of the current dialogue
in order to discover new talent and inspiration.
Enter "New African Fashion," by Arise magazine editor,
Helen Jennings, which shows the achievements of popular African
lines such as Duro Olowu, Suno, Black Coffee, Eric Raisina and more.
In her discussion of the current state of fashion in Africa, Jennings
looks back at the history of African influence in European design.
Born in Algeria in 1936, Yves Saint Laurent's North African-inspired
designs have continued to be influential for over half a century.
Today, Moroccan-born Alber Elbaz holds the helm at Lanvin and Tunisian
designer Azzedine Alaia continues to provoke. These designers all
worked out of Paris, bringing inspiration from their native countries
to the French fashion scene.
Jennings not only looks at historic designers from Africa who are
present on the world's stage of design, but also looks to the new
wave of young designers, showing images of each of their collections
and discussing them with the designer. "The woman's condition
in Africa has made major advances but there are still so many barriers
to break," Xuly Bet designer Lamine Badian Kouyate tells Jennings,
"I want to bring light to the history of Africa and project
a united future."
"New African Fashion" is currently available from Prestel
on Amazon.com for $35.00. Take a peek in our gallery below for a
preview of the book as well as some images of Africa's young talent:
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