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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword / Marla C. Berns
Acknowledgments / Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and Leslie W. Rabine
Prologue: Notes on Fashioning Art across Africa / John Picton
Introduction: Introducing African-Print Fashion / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran
Part One | African-Print Cloth: Origins and Transformations
1. Dutch Wax Classics: The Designs Introduced / Ebenezer Brown
Fleming circa 1890–1912 and Their Legacy / Helen Elands
Interleaf A: Design at Vlisco / M. Amah Edoh
Interleaf B: Designing for Wax Prints at ABC / Helen Elands
2. African Prints/African Ownership: On Naming, Value, and Classics / Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Interleaf C: African Prints Made in Europe / Betsy D. Quick
3. “Bringing Fabrics to Life”: Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher
Interleaf D: African Prints Made in Africa / Suzanne Gott
Interleaf E: African-Print Cloth in Abidjan: A Success Story / Anne Grosfilley
4. Real/Fake: Brands, Labels, and China in West Africa / Nina Sylvanus
Interleaf F: African Prints Made in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan / Leslie W. Rabine
Part Two | Fashioning Identities, Expanding Styles
5. Portraits in Print / Leslie W. Rabine
6. “Life” Dressing in Kumasi: African-Print Style in “Popular” Fashion / Suzanne Gott
Interleaf G: Nsaasaawa: Ghanaian Patchwork from the Kitchen to the Catwalk / Boatema Boateng
Interleaf H: From Grandmother’s Dress to the Fashion Runway Chitenge styles in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen
7. Ankara Fashions in Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
Interleaf I: Shopping in Abidjan with Saundra Lang / Leslie W. Rabine
8. Voices on the Runway: African Prints and African Fashion Designers / Kristyne S. Loughran
Interleaf J: Claire Kane Guaranteed Wax Collection and the Photography of Omar Victor Diop / Ken Aicha Sy
Part Three | New Directions
9. Vlisco—Rebranding into Fashion / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran
Interleaf K: Re-Dressing the Past Vlisco’s Entry into Post-Apartheid South Africa / Sandra Klopper
10. Designing Futures, Virtual Communities and Fashion Weeks: Push African-Print Fashion Forward / Helen Jennings
Interleaf L: The Eternal Return of Fashion Angelina, the Dashiki, and Twenty-First-Century African Fashion / Leslie W. Rabine
11. From Colonialism to Hip-Hop Style African-Print Fashion in Senegal / Leslie W. Rabine
12. In the Making: African-Print Fashion and Contemporary Art / Hansi Momodu-Gordon
Afterword: Cloth, Dress, and Drama / Victoria L. Rovine
Notes to the Text
References Cited
Index
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