African-print fashion now!: a story of taste, globalization, and style

Foreword / Marla C. Berns

Acknowledgments / Suzanne Gott, Kristyne S. Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, and Leslie W. Rabine

Notes on fashioning art across Africa / John Picton

Introducing African-print fashion / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran

Part I. African-print cloth: origins and transformations

Dutch wax classics: the designs introduced by Ebenezer Brown Fleming circa 1890/1912 and their legacy / Helen Elands

Design at Vlisco / M. Amah Edoh

Designing for wax prints at ABC / Helen Elands

African prints/African ownership: on naming, values, and classics / Kathleen Bickford Berzock

African prints made in Europe / Betsy D. Quick

"Bringing fabrics to life": Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher

African prints made in Africa / Suzanne Gott

African-print cloth in Abidjan: a success story / Anne Grosfilley

Real/Fake: brands, labels, and China in West Africa / Nina Sylvanus

African prints made in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan / Leslie W. Rabine

Part II. Fashioning identities, expanding styles

Portraits in print / Leslie W. Rabine

"Life" dressing in Kumasi: African-print style in "popular" fashion / Suzanne Gott

Nsaasaawa: Ghanaian patchwork from the kitchen to the catwalk / Boatema Boateng

From grandmother's dress to the fashion runway: Chitenge styles in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen

Ankara Fashions in Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne

Shopping in Abidjan with Saundra Lang / Leslie W. Rabine

Voices on the runway: African prints and African fashion designers / Kristyne S. Loughran

Claire Kane Guaranteed Wax Collection and the photography of Omar Victor Diop / Ken Aïcha Sy

Part III. New directions

Vlisco

rebranding into fashion /

Suzanne Gott and Kristyne S. Loughran

Re-dressing the past: Vlisco's entry into post-apartheid South Africa / Sandra Klopper

Designing futures: virtual communities and fashion weeks push African-print fashion forward / Helen Jennings

The eternal return of fashion: Angelina, the dashiki, and twenty-first-century African fashion / Leslie W. Rabine

From colonialism to hip-hop style: African-print fashion in Senegal / Leslie W. Rabine

In the making: African-print fashion and contemporary art / Hansi Momodu-Gordon

Cloth, dress, and drama / Victoria L. Rovine.