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random goodness 12/13: fabric

Posted: December 13th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: fashion, film, photography | 1 Comment »

FASHION: Photos from 2009 Swahili Fashion Week held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania this past November.

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Screenshot from Swahili Fashion Week site
FASHION: Suno New York. Clothing line designed and developed in New York City’s Garment District and sewn in Kenya. Previous collections have been inspired by khanga cloth from the Kenya coast.

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Screenshot from SunoNY site

FASHION: Jamhuri Wear: Nairobi Style. Speaking of NYC and Kenya, the incomparable Nomadic Wax recently featured Jamhuri Wear’s Jeffrey Kimathi whose street wear designs are inspired by both both places.

FILM: Yinka Shonibare: Threads of Art. Speaking of khangas, I was recently in Washington DC and saw the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art HUGE installation of Yinka Shonibare’s sculptures, photographs and video. If you are in the DC area, go see, it is well worth the visit. Narration is a little grad-school dissertation-y but does a good job of putting Shonibare’s work in cultural and political context for me after experiencing the art.


“Yinka Shonibare: Threads of Art”, Short Film by Ali Standish

One Comment on “random goodness 12/13: fabric”

  1. 1 Creativeroots - Design from across the world said at 1:11 am on December 14th, 2009:

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