Cosmopolitanism and women's fashion in Ghana : history, artistry and nationalist inspirations /
Christopher L. Richards.
Bok Engelsk 2022 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (267 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Copyright Page -- 1 Introduction: The Many Modes of (African) Fashion -- "Fashion Matters" in Ghana -- Defining Fashion -- The Beginnings of Scholarship on African Fashion - Dress and Adornment -- Scholarship on African Fashion -- Fashion as Art -- Art Inseparable From Fashion: Haute Couture -- "… Like a Modern Canvas": Fashion as Art - the Designs of Schiaparelli and Pei -- Art to Wear: Fashion and the "Wearable Art" Movement -- "New" Looks and Distressed Duds: the Artistry of the "New Look" and Punk Fashion -- "Picking" From the Past: African Fashion and the Notion of Tradition -- Cosmopolitanism: a Space and Its Inhabitants -- The Location: Accra, Ghana -- Notes -- 2 Accra's Pre- and Independence-Era Fashion Cultures -- World and European Fashions -- International Fashions -- Local Fashions -- "Fashion With the African Personality Is in Full Bloom": Accra's Nationalist, Cosmopolitan Fashions -- "… Something Which Is Essentially Ghanaian": Cosmopolitan, Nationalist Fashions and the Kente Reformation -- The Fashion Event: Fashion Night Out, Ghana, April 19, 2012 -- Notes -- 3 The Forerunners of Ghana's Fashion Designers: Letitia Obeng and Laura Quartey -- "Because It Was Mine, Not Anything Foreign": Letitia Obeng's Promotion of the Kaba and Ntama -- Ghana's Most Sought-After Dressmaker: Laura Quartey -- Informal Fashion Archives: the Collections of Edith François and Kathleen Ayensu -- Notes -- 4 "Paris-Trained, Osu-Domiciled": Juliana "Chez Julie" Kweifio-Okai, Ghana's First Fashion Designer -- "From Ministry Clerk to Dressmaker": the Career of Juliana Kweifio-Okai and Her Label, Chez Julie -- "… A Parisienne Touch": Chez Julie's Early Designs -- "Creations to Suit the African Personality": Chez Julie's Cosmopolitan, Nationalist Fashions.. - Designed in Lagos, Sewn in Ghana: Kweifio-Okai's Nigerian-Inspired Fashions -- "It's Not Spoiled": Kweifio-Okai's Kente Kaba and Akwadzan -- The Feminist Approach of Kweifio-Okai -- Chez Julie - a Personal Epilogue -- The Boutique: B'ExotiQ, Beatrice "Bee" Arthur -- Notes -- 5 "I Don't Do Nice -- It Has to Be Interesting": The Designs of Beatrice "Bee" Arthur -- The Multicultural Origins of B'ExotiQ -- Clothes That Make Me Happy: the Artistry of Bee Arthur -- The Freedom to Express Yourself: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Heritage in Arthur's Fashions -- "For Me It Was All About the Fusion": the Matryoshka Dress -- "I Like That Things Become Something Else": the Recycling and Revising of Arthur's Designs -- A Sinuous Signature: Arthur as Artist -- "A Lion Does Not Need to Roar to Keep the Crowd in Awe.": Arthur's Final Collections -- Hands Off - Eyes Only -- Dumsor -- Eternally Funky: the Legacy of Beatrice "Bee" Arthur and B'ExotiQ -- The Workshop: Christie Brown, Aisha Ayensu -- Notes -- 6 "The Spirit of the African Woman": Aisha Ayensu and Her Brand, Christie Brown -- The Creation and Development of Christie Brown -- "People Come to Us for Our Details": the Artistry of Christie Brown -- Asymmetry -- Volume -- "My Thing Is Detail, Detail, Detail": Hidden Flourishes and Bold Embellishments -- Sartorial Surprises -- Print in Motion -- Clothed in Cultural Heritage - the Material Significance of Ayensu's Designs -- Wax Print -- Batakari Cloth -- The Future of Christie Brown -- Notes -- 7 The Future of Ghanaian, and African, Fashion -- Notes -- Index.
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| ISBN | 1-000-47852-1
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