Thoroughly researched and thoughtfully written, Christopher L. Richards's 2022 Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations documents the sartorial expressions of Accra's fashionistas. Ghana's fashion world, which the author has worked in and documented since 2009, has been overwhelmingly male dominated, as has fashion internationally. To counter this, Richards highlights the voices, histories, and creations of female designers, particularly those of younger generations whose contributions, though significant, are largely undocumented. However, designers were chosen on nongendered criteria, being deemed the most culturally and artistically significant of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Each demonstrated: 1) documented and sustained success locally and globally; 2) the existence of a sufficient array of garments; and 3) a commitment to producing original and innovative designs that engage with Ghanaian dress practice while affirming a cosmopolitan identity. In each of the book's seven chapters, examples and research remind the reader that fashion...
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Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations by Christopher L. Richards
Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations
by Christopher L.
Richards
London and New York
: Routledge
, 2022. 266 pp., 55 color ill. $52.95 paperback
Amanda M. Maples
Amanda M. Maples
Amanda m. Maples is the Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the curator and author of Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women (Smithsonian Institution, 2018). [email protected]
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Amanda M. Maples
Amanda m. Maples is the Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the curator and author of Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women (Smithsonian Institution, 2018). [email protected]
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2024 by the Regents of the University of California
2024
Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2024) 57 (2): 94–96.
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Amanda M. Maples; Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations by Christopher L. Richards. African Arts 2024; 57 (2): 94–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00759
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