NYT article: Designing to an Afro Beat
Western fascination with African art and design has blown in gusts for over a century, of course, ever since Picasso and Kandinsky filled their canvases with tribal motifs. As recently as the 1970s, Yves Saint Laurent introduced a collection of “African” dresses constructed from raffia, shells and wooden beads…
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Posted: December 30th, 2009
at 6:10pm by L.
Tagged with african fashion, marc jacobs, New York Times, ysl
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