{"subjects": ["Fashion", "Clothing and dress", "Mode", "Social aspects", "Fashion merchandising", "Internationalisatie", "Kleidung", "Africa, social life and customs", "Clothing trade", "Culture and globalization", "Fashion & society"], "key": "/works/OL5097809W", "title": "The Global Circulation of African Fashion (Dress, Body, Culture)", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1122324A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2061733], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, images and identities have played a vital role in creating an informal global network for African fashion - from clothing designers and tailors to dyers and jewellery makers. This book traces the c hanging meanings, aesthetics and histories of the thriving informal African fashion network through its multicultural cross-roads of Los Angeles, Kenya and Senegal. In African communities, designers compete with each other to survive and often t ravel long distances in search of new markets. Such competition and bridging of cultures fuels creat."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T08:38:48.786884"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-04-30T05:27:40.306193"}}