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The Africa: The Fashion Continent volume explores the creative revolution driven by a new generation of designers and artists shaping African fashion across cities from Lagos to Nairobi. It examines how young designers are reappropriating fashion codes and narratives, featuring contributions from photographers, body-artists, hair and makeup specialists, and bloggers. The book includes an essay by author Emmanuelle Courrèges on the broader creative movement, offering insight into the audacious and distinctly African direction contemporary fashion is taking.
The brilliance of a new generation of designers and artists shaping African fashion is exhilarating the global scene. This luxury volume by Flammarion explores how young designers are reappropriating the codes and narratives of fashion in Africa, from Lagos to Marrakech, Accra to Nairobi, in sharp new ways. This vital edition reveals the essential roles of photographers, body-artists, hair and makeup specialists, and bloggers in challenging conventions and creating a new, vitally disruptive, witty, audacious, and resolutely African chapter in fashion. Reappropriating visual language, this bold title, which includes an essay by author Emmanuelle Courrèges on the broader creative revolution taking place, 'Africa: the Fashion Continent' is essential reading for design aficionados and aesthetes everywhere.
