THE BOOK
From neo-traditional tissues to Senegalese fashion system, from power dress-code to afro-hairstyling languages, the book African Style is a tribute to African stylistic creativity. Tissues, accessories, hairstyling are messages full of contents. Wearing any clothes African people declare their right to beauty and they show the enormous creative potential of the Black Continent.
African Style proposes a new Africa image, an updated, creative, constructive and dignified view of the Continent, leading us to deep reflections on ethnic heritage, contaminations and urban modernity.
African Style is moreover an original guide by images, outlines and interviews to the most representative designers of contemporary African fashion: from the Ivorian Pathé O, Nelson Mandela's shirtmaker, to Marianne Fassler, godmother of urban South African fashion since twenty years, to Mickael Kra, the African architect of jewels who produces inventive bijoux made of ostrich eggs in Namibia and Botswana.
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