The company behind some of Africa’s most popular fabrics is Dutch, but women vendors have managed to make the prints their own. With its geometric patterns, bold prints, and rich, electric pops of ...
Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum ...
A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...
Fashion serves as a global tongue, and increasingly, it is a worldwide sensibility that welcomes African-inspired clothing ...
In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...
Black-owned businesses make amazing clothing inspired by African patterns. What happens when, inevitably, everyone else starts buying them? By Shira Telushkin The recent outpouring of support for ...
Stella McCartney is being accused of cultural appropriation. The designer sent models down the runway wearing dresses with an Ankara print. Ankara is a traditional African print that is popular in ...