Published 2017
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | 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 Aøcha Sy, Nina Sylvanus |
| Series | Fowler Museum Textile Series -- no. 14, Fowler Museum textile series -- no. 14. |
| Contributions | Fowler Museum at UCLA |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | NK9504.7 .A37 2017 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 302 pages |
| Number of Pages | 302 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL26947374M |
| ISBN 10 | 0990762637 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780990762638 |
| LC Control Number | 2017011319 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 976036332 |
African-Print Fashion Now! is organized into four distinct sections: It All Starts with Cloth; Portraits in Print; Regional Styles, Fashion Preferences; and New Directions. It All Starts with Cloth addresses the history of African-print textiles, originally inspired by batik or wax-resist cloth from Indonesia. A dense grid of more than 60 cloths manufactured in Europe, Africa, and Asia evokes. African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style is organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA in association with Vlisco Netherlands B.V. It is guest curated by Suzanne Gott with Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and Leslie W. Rabine. Major funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts with the additional. A new book telling the story of African print includes an essay by Nataal’s editorial director African Print Fashion Now! A Story Of Taste, Globalization And Style is a newly published coffee table book accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, California. Julie Paschkis, Deborah Mersky and I just returned from a field trip to Los Angeles to see African Print Fashion Now! at the Fowler Museum. All of us are fans of the large and varied category of fabrics known as African prints. Deborah first introduced me to them many years ago when she brought some pieces for Julie and me back with her from a shop in New York.
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