africa.style: the world is finally noticing?
Posted: February 16th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: fashion, museums, photography | Comments Off
Nuit de Noel, 1963. © Malick Sidibe. From Artnet site
“There is a wonderful Malik Sidibe picture in our show of a couple dancing at a Christmas party, a barefoot girl in a full-skirted party cress looking like the most gorgeous model dipping, with one of her legs raised, and a guy totally dapper guy, just grooving,” said Vince Aletti, curator of “This Is Not a Fashion Photograph,” currently at the International Center of Photography. “When you think about an image like that, you hope that there is some better sense of Africa available to people than some romanticized colonialist, stuck in amber, image of bracelets and long necks.
Revealing New Layers of African Fashion
