Africa Fashion maps the seismic shift underway across the African continent, tracing how a new generation of designers, photographers, and image-makers from Senegal to Nigeria to South Africa are rewriting fashion's global narrative from the inside out.
About This Book
From the runways of Lagos to the Afropunk festival in Johannesburg, from the image-makers of Marrakech to the influencers of Dakar and Accra, African fashion design has moved decisively to the centre of global creative culture. This volume documents that movement with precision and genuine enthusiasm — examining how a generation of designers is revalorising heritage textiles while pushing into entirely new formal territory. Bazin fabrics meet plastics, traditional adire print appears on silk dresses, mesh beading informs knitwear, and body artists transform face and hair into social manifestos. Photographers working across the continent use clothing and accessories to interrogate identity, gender, and colour. The result is a portrait of contemporary African fashion that resists nostalgia and insists on the present.
Key Features
- 240 pages of photography, portraiture, and documentation of African fashion design across multiple cities and disciplines
- Author: Emmanuelle Courreges
- Features designers, photographers, bloggers, and hair and make-up artists from Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Ghana, and beyond
- Published by Flammarion S.A., ISBN: 9782081513419
What You'll Discover
- How designers are recontextualising traditional textiles — bazin, adire, woven cloth — through hybrid fabrication and contemporary silhouette
- The role of photographers and body artists in using fashion to address questions of identity, gender, and colour on their own terms
- The geography of the new African fashion scene: runway culture in Lagos, festival style in Johannesburg, street influence radiating from Dakar and Accra
- How the adire print, championed by figures including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michelle Obama, has entered international fashion consciousness
About the Author
Emmanuelle Courreges is the author of this survey of contemporary African fashion. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 240
- Dimensions: 316 x 248 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782081513419
- Publisher: Flammarion S.A.
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Fashion designers, researchers, and educators with an interest in contemporary African design; cultural studies academics; photographers and visual artists engaged with questions of identity and representation; design enthusiasts seeking to move beyond Eurocentric fashion histories.