Fashion Cities Africa
The exhibition Fashion Cities Africa focuses on the style choices of individual ‘fashion agents’ from designers and stylists to photographers and bloggers. This is the first UK show dedicated to contemporary African fashion.
Museum staff and Africa fashion specialists Hannah Azieb Pool and Helen Jennings visited four cities at the compass points of the African continent – Casablanca in Morocco, Lagos in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya and Johannesburg in South Africa - in summer 2015 (supported in part by the Art Fund through the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme) to explore their fashion scenes and identify key players.
The exhibition includes a wide range of apparel, from couture to street style – alongside images, film and sound evoking the drama, creativity and dynamism of the four distinctive cities.
Fashion Cities Africa
30 April 2016 to 8 January 2017
www.brightonmuseums.org.uk
Make sure to visit this weekend as 'The Africa Arts Festival' promises to be a celebration of African fashion, film, food, music and literature, inspired by the Fashion Cities Africa exhibition, created in collaboration with artists, makers, musicians, writers, performers, cultural organisations and community groups.
28 October - 30 October, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and Brighton Dome Café Bar
Museum staff and Africa fashion specialists Hannah Azieb Pool and Helen Jennings visited four cities at the compass points of the African continent – Casablanca in Morocco, Lagos in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya and Johannesburg in South Africa - in summer 2015 (supported in part by the Art Fund through the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme) to explore their fashion scenes and identify key players.
The exhibition includes a wide range of apparel, from couture to street style – alongside images, film and sound evoking the drama, creativity and dynamism of the four distinctive cities.
Fashion Cities Africa
30 April 2016 to 8 January 2017
www.brightonmuseums.org.uk
Make sure to visit this weekend as 'The Africa Arts Festival' promises to be a celebration of African fashion, film, food, music and literature, inspired by the Fashion Cities Africa exhibition, created in collaboration with artists, makers, musicians, writers, performers, cultural organisations and community groups.
28 October - 30 October, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and Brighton Dome Café Bar