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In Africa, there are many fashion centers, however, are here unknown. The Show “Connecting African Futures” introduces you to and shows, like from car tires Jackets.



Not a single exhibit from the collection of the Berlin Museum of decorative arts come from Africa, says Claudia Banz at the press presentation of the exhibition “Afro-Futures. Fashion – Hair – Design”. But this defect will be fixed soon, adds the curator.

An exhibition on fashion and African hairstyles and hair styling is not in the UK yet. The confrontation with the colonial past of Europe is the museums but more and more of a concern, also the arts and crafts Museum.

It would be Ideal if the origin of an artist would no longer play a role, says Friederike Tappe-Hornbostel of the German Federal cultural Foundation, where for some time the exchange between German and African artists and institutions increasingly will be promoted. The work should be the focus, not the location, has produced it

Black instead of the gaudy colors: Lamula Anderson breaks with taboos

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Claudia Banz shares this view. But she stresses that fashion is a system of power, and many designers would be excluded due to their nationality, still have it.

At this point, the exhibition focuses on giving innovative, high-profile designers of African origin a free letter. You should have the ability to of the Western fashion industry-established rules for recapture. They question stereotypes and engage in a sustainable fashion.

Black is making a Comeback

Colorful and rich in contrast, many of the patterns are of African clothing. Lamula Anderson, born in Uganda, lives in London, where she studied fashion. She wanted to do everything differently. Already alone, because they recommended her often: “You should wear bright colors, because Your skin is dark”. She founded her own fashion label, Lamula Nassuna, and decided to put up these social rules of their own community. You designed black dresses. “A Statement on the self-presentation that speaks to all of the standards,” she says self-consciously.

From trash to fashion: Njola introduces their new designs in Berlin

Also, the Duo of Laura Tarot and Naay Sooley from the Label Bull Doff prefer a black-and-white punk aesthetic in traditional woven fabrics, which are widely worn in Africa at the time of a birth, wedding or death. They recycle materials such as iron, tire and leather, and work in the substances.

Innovative Forms Of Expression

Elaborate Hairstyling is part of the African identity. It is an aesthetic and political Statement at the same time. In the exhibition, illustrations of Diana Ejaita see, the traditional hairstyles represents in an abstract way. The concept art Mechac presents a installations, which resembles a tower made of plaited hair. The Installation of the Senegalese fashion designer Adama Amanda Ndiaye plays so that your hair has always been a big concern in your life. She plays with different hairstyles, by extensions, braids or wigs adds.

The most sustainable garments in the world

Today, sustainability is, for many designers a theme. It is also a key word in the exhibition “Afro-Futures. Fashion – Hair – Design”. Two of the designers represented in an impressive way how sustainability can also be in High Fashion implemented.

Sustainability is the big issue of Fashion designers from Africa as José Hendo

The Ugandan Multimedia artist Njola works with materials that have been left behind in places with poor waste disposal such as the Slums of Kampala. The idea, from garbage to new objects is in Africa, not new, but the shoes, clothes, backpacks and other accessories of the label Njola Impressions, which are made from old tires, plastic bags and discarded Flip-Flops, have an amazing Sci-Fi Look and integrate at the same time references to the African culture. “People love our Design. It has a contemporary and organic style,” said Njola in an interview with DW. You and your Team of “Njola Recycling Initiative” to integrate unemployed school drop-outs in your project. You have to collect materials on the streets or learn in Workshops of traditional web methods. “We are using fashion to solve the problems of the Community,” she says.

The revival of bark cloth

José Hendo is an activist for sustainability in the fashion industry. The London-based Ugandan designer, criticized, Second-Hand clothes from America and Europe to the markets in Africa, broken, and integrates, for example, parts of used Jeans in your designs. Hendo is constantly looking for new sustainable materials. They also came across an old method in their home names Mutuba. The so-called tree bark fleece is considered to be the oldest textile in the history of mankind. It is, of course, grown from the bark of the Fig tree. Mutuba, and was formerly reserved for the monarchs of the Kingdom of Buganda. In the stairwell of the Museum of arts and crafts, a gigantic, ochre-colored Mutuba cloth attached. Hendo used the slightly stiff, leather-like Material for their expansive designs. So beauty and the year to connect thousands of years of Tradition to contemporary Design from Africa.

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