FIT museum visit

The design I spotted is by designer Maki Oh’s Amaka Osakwe, who deeply is an intellectual designer focused on Africa. According to the description plate, the fringe dress is part of a collection that relates a narrative of rural life in Nigeria. Whereas Nigeria, the country with large income inequality, long-term ethnic conflict and civil unrest, political instability, and serious corruption. It is not hard to imagine what a chaotic life Osakwe must have been through. Regardless of the brutality in Nigeria, Osakwe was able to receive a bachelor of art degree in fashion studies and soon after launched her label in autumn/winter 2010. In her work from the past, she not only explored collaborating her design with symbolic ornamentation and traditional African fabric and inventing a new technique of dying with the most commonly consumed produce, cassava,  but also she related legacy of African countries and incorporate within her design.

Her design deserves to be shown in this specific exhibition not only because she is a black designer originally from Africa, but more importantly is that she took the pride of her origin and invented multiple methods of mingling two cultures and showcase in her design. As a result of her striving as a designer,  she managed to enter the scope of celebrities such as Beyonce, Rihanna, and Michelle Obama. Her deigns being worn by the singers, actresses, and politicians are approval of her significance of elevating the Nigeria culture.

 

 

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