Cosmopolitanism and women's fashion in Ghana : : history, artistry and nationalist inspirations / / Christopher L. Richards.
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Place / Publishing House: | London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Copyright Page
- 1 Introduction: The Many Modes of (African) Fashion
- "Fashion Matters" in Ghana
- Defining Fashion
- The Beginnings of Scholarship on African Fashion - Dress and Adornment
- Scholarship on African Fashion
- Fashion as Art
- Art Inseparable From Fashion: Haute Couture
- "… Like a Modern Canvas": Fashion as Art - the Designs of Schiaparelli and Pei
- Art to Wear: Fashion and the "Wearable Art" Movement
- "New" Looks and Distressed Duds: the Artistry of the "New Look" and Punk Fashion
- "Picking" From the Past: African Fashion and the Notion of Tradition
- Cosmopolitanism: a Space and Its Inhabitants
- The Location: Accra, Ghana
- Notes
- 2 Accra's Pre- and Independence-Era Fashion Cultures
- World and European Fashions
- International Fashions
- Local Fashions
- "Fashion With the African Personality Is in Full Bloom": Accra's Nationalist, Cosmopolitan Fashions
- "… Something Which Is Essentially Ghanaian": Cosmopolitan, Nationalist Fashions and the Kente Reformation
- The Fashion Event: Fashion Night Out, Ghana, April 19, 2012
- Notes
- 3 The Forerunners of Ghana's Fashion Designers: Letitia Obeng and Laura Quartey
- "Because It Was Mine, Not Anything Foreign": Letitia Obeng's Promotion of the Kaba and Ntama
- Ghana's Most Sought-After Dressmaker: Laura Quartey
- Informal Fashion Archives: the Collections of Edith François and Kathleen Ayensu
- Notes
- 4 "Paris-Trained, Osu-Domiciled": Juliana "Chez Julie" Kweifio-Okai, Ghana's First Fashion Designer
- "From Ministry Clerk to Dressmaker": the Career of Juliana Kweifio-Okai and Her Label, Chez Julie
- "… A Parisienne Touch": Chez Julie's Early Designs
- "Creations to Suit the African Personality": Chez Julie's Cosmopolitan, Nationalist Fashions.
- Designed in Lagos, Sewn in Ghana: Kweifio-Okai's Nigerian-Inspired Fashions
- "It's Not Spoiled": Kweifio-Okai's Kente Kaba and Akwadzan
- The Feminist Approach of Kweifio-Okai
- Chez Julie - a Personal Epilogue
- The Boutique: B'ExotiQ, Beatrice "Bee" Arthur
- Notes
- 5 "I Don't Do Nice
- It Has to Be Interesting": The Designs of Beatrice "Bee" Arthur
- The Multicultural Origins of B'ExotiQ
- Clothes That Make Me Happy: the Artistry of Bee Arthur
- The Freedom to Express Yourself: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Heritage in Arthur's Fashions
- "For Me It Was All About the Fusion": the Matryoshka Dress
- "I Like That Things Become Something Else": the Recycling and Revising of Arthur's Designs
- A Sinuous Signature: Arthur as Artist
- "A Lion Does Not Need to Roar to Keep the Crowd in Awe.": Arthur's Final Collections
- Hands Off - Eyes Only
- Dumsor
- Eternally Funky: the Legacy of Beatrice "Bee" Arthur and B'ExotiQ
- The Workshop: Christie Brown, Aisha Ayensu
- Notes
- 6 "The Spirit of the African Woman": Aisha Ayensu and Her Brand, Christie Brown
- The Creation and Development of Christie Brown
- "People Come to Us for Our Details": the Artistry of Christie Brown
- Asymmetry
- Volume
- "My Thing Is Detail, Detail, Detail": Hidden Flourishes and Bold Embellishments
- Sartorial Surprises
- Print in Motion
- Clothed in Cultural Heritage - the Material Significance of Ayensu's Designs
- Wax Print
- Batakari Cloth
- The Future of Christie Brown
- Notes
- 7 The Future of Ghanaian, and African, Fashion
- Notes
- Index.