Fashion Capitals by https://padlet.com/merlepatchett/9vyyoolw39clp7uk en-us 2023-03-06 10:21:48 UTC 2023-03-06 11:56:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Questions merlepatchett https://padlet.com/merlepatchett/9vyyoolw39clp7uk/wish/2504920706
  1. “Paris, Capital of Fashion,” therefore, is not uniquely a part of French, or even European, history, it is a global history." (Kurkdjian 2020: 372)  Discuss. ​

2. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux1XU5vlXJo ​

Does the African "New Woman" in An African City constitute a progressive counter-narrative?​

3. Why is the idea of a fashion city counter-productive according to Gilbert and Casadei (2020)?

]]> 2023-03-06 10:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/merlepatchett/9vyyoolw39clp7uk/wish/2504920706 Does the African "new women" in an African city constitute a progressive counter-narrative? https://padlet.com/merlepatchett/9vyyoolw39clp7uk/wish/2505030342 The show is limited by trying to ignore the reality that most African women do live in quote “stereotypes” that the ‘new women’ tries to change. Without a class analysis of the lived realities of African women, the show presents an ideal that only the upper middle-class, English-speaking African as can be fashionable or afropolitan. 

Nevertheless, the middle class does exist in African and also shouldn’t be ignored. Their sense of national belonging drive them back to African, to embrace its fashion and has helped push it to a global stage. The western imagination of poor African women is changed. Which is important because this show is about the conversation happening with the rest of the world and African as its progresses. 

More local/ internal conservations are need in the future but that’s not what the show seeks to question.  

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