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Continental Swagger: African Fashion Design in the 21st Century

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, hear perspectives on heritage-inspired craftsmanship, sustainability, and the use of local resources, as well as the joys and challenges of international success, from three of the continent’s most exciting designers. Join Adeju Thompson, Imane Ayissi, and Wanda Lephoto, all part of Guzangs, a media and cultural platform dedicated to documenting and celebrating African fashion and global diasporic design, to learn more about the roles that cultural exploration, innovation, and production hold within their practices, and consider connections between African style traditions and Black dandyism. Please note that this program includes interpretation from French into English.


Contributors

Adeju Thompson, designer and Founder, Lagos Space Programme (Nigeria)

Imane Ayissi, designer (Cameroon)

Wanda Lephoto, designer (South Africa)

Moderated by Monica L. Miller, Guest Curator, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, and Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University




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