Cosmopolitanism and women's fashion in Ghana : : history, artistry and nationalist inspirations / / Christopher L. Richards.

• VerfasserIn: Richards, Christopher L.,
• 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)

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.