The image in the header and the image above show the beautiful creation by Dutch-Moroccan fashion designer and artist Karim Adduchi. This dress is made from old hand-woven carpets and 2018 acquired by the Wereldmuseum. TM 7155-1
Move over Paris!
September, Fashion Month! Every year many famous and “upcoming” designers show their latest collection on the many catwalks in Milan, Paris and Amsterdam. But what about Lagos, Casablanca and Tbilisi? That Fashion Weeks have long since ceased to be a European-American party, you will read in this Collection Story.
Western magazines for young people like Dazed and Confused and I-D-Vice show shoots from around the world, and some of those titles also appear in countries like Nigeria.
Conversely, the ultra-hip Nigerian The Native Magazine is now available in London, Paris and NY, as well as many other fashion cities.
Also in the aforementioned Nigeria, where a fashion week has been taking place in the capital Lagos since 2011, as well as in Bogota, Sao Paolo, Jakarta, Fiji, Hyderabad, Seoul, Panama, Tbilisi, Casablanca. All are thriving fashion scenes.
And exciting things happen there. Things that we here in the Netherlands generally know little about, and that is of course a great pity.
If we look at the clothes kept in our museums through a different lens, we can review the history of fashion and our museums and enrich them with different knowledge and insights.
Perhaps it is time for “the West” to take that on board in its insatiable quest for innovation and creativity, after all, isn't that what fashion is all about?