Monthly Archives: June 2020
- Jun 18 2020
Price of Handmade
Categories: Business of FashionPeople often wonder why African clothes usually cost more than the clothes they buy on the high-street. And honestly, you can use your own thinking to figure that out. Something made in bulk for everyone will cost way less than something handmade just for one person.
- Jun 17 2020
Wax print: Africa's pride or colonial legacy?
Categories: Dress PoliticsFridays are the day to wear “African print” outfits in Ghanaian offices, yet some designers are boycotting such fabrics - arguing they are not actually African.
The history behind the designs is complex - and involves several continents.
- Jun 10 2020
BLM? Then Support
If Black lives matter, then they should matter first and foremost to us Africans. And by matter, it means we should add value to our "Black" lives our African culture our African business
- Jun 10 2020
African Aesthetic
Categories: Design Science“African clothes” what makes clothes African? African clothes are modern clothes associated with the African continent, namely West African clothing popularized by the Diaspora. If one goes back 500 years most of Africa would not call these clothes African.
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