Event 3- African Print Fashion Now!
For our 3rd event, I visited the Fowler Museum on campus, and specifically went to the "African Print Fashion Now" exhibit. I found this exhibit to be super interesting and I was not even aware this existed on our campus. I have never learned about African fashion, so it was a new topic I got to explore. African dress is characterized with bright colors, bold images, and complex patterns. This is mainly worn in the countries of west and central Africa, and although the trends vary from country to country, the overall theme remains the same. This exhibit covered all aspects of African fashion from runway, to youth trends, to local seamstresses. African fashion began to bloom in the twentieth century, and was seen all over the globe as it gained popularity. The designs are used to depict issues such as identity, displacement, and hybridity, while combining art and fashion. The cloth worn by the women are seen as her measure of wealth and taste, so a lot of time and ef