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RAI Film Festival 2017. dress-scapes of Accra / Unity :

This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity and hybridity of tailor-made fashion in the city,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Visser, Mara Lin (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Fashion designers > Ghana > Accra.
Clothing and dress > Ghana > Accra.
Clothing trade > Ghana > Accra.
Tailoring > Ghana > Accra.
Accra (Ghana)
Couturiers (Créateurs de mode) > Ghāna > Accra.
Confection > Ghāna > Accra.
Clothing and dress
Clothing trade
Fashion designers
Tailoring
Ghana > Accra
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity and hybridity of tailor-made fashion in the city, the variety of ways in which African clothing may be used and the cultural expression that is implicit in the wearing of African printed fabrics. The process of sewing a dress involves the marriage not only of fabric and design, and of tradition and creativity, but also of husband and wife.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (37 min.)
Playing Time:00:36:18