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Mettā Podcast - #WhatsGood Creative Ambition - Fashion

Mettā Podcast - #WhatsGood Creative Ambition - Fashion

2020-01-15

This episode is brought you to by Hivos, under The Resources of Open Mind project, which supports the global creative work and projects of artists, musicians, and media producers around the world. The project through its various initiatives aims at supporting a new generation of creative futurists, challenging the dominant narratives, status quo, and providing alternate narratives. In this inaugural edition of the #WhatsGood Creative Ambition, Mettā Nairobi shifted their eye to the fashion sector, to focus on the rift between the young/upcoming designers and the established/successful designers on differences in business practices, design, mentorship, personal branding amongst other issues. The speakers included: Joel Meshack - Founder & Creative Director, Naivaa. Anyango Mpinga - Founder & Creative Director, Anyango Mpinga. Winnie Odande - Lead Stylist, Switch TV. The conversation was moderated by Connie Aluoch, an award-winning fashion stylist & lifestyle curator.

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - The Body Is The Primary Museum: Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - The Body Is The Primary Museum: Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

2021-02-25

Passionate about creating spaces of learning, Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung shares his perspectives with Beatrace on artisanship from Africa and the diaspora. An internationally renowned curator of African art, author, professor at the Weissensee Academy of Art in Berlin, founder of Savvy Contemporary, yet with a doctorate in biophysics, Ndikung gives a critically thought-out and cross-dimensional perspective on the current state of post colonial art and fashion. A mouthful right? And newly awarded OCAD University International Curators Residency fellowship in Toronto. Not only that but we get a taste of his encyclopaedic knowledge of history, philosophy, artisans, and fashion designers from Africa in this interview. ‘I don’t think the catwalks in Europe or America need to legitimise their [African fashion designers’] existence’. ‘It’s never just the aesthetic it’s always about the meaning’. The fusion of rich and diverse sub-nations, cultures, ideas and talents from the African continent, and by extension the African diaspora has produced irresistible trend-setting fashion, styles, aesthetics, sounds and a way of life globally. Yet in the shadows of this allure the conflict between slow fashion, sustainability in Africa and fast fashion is a conversation to be encouraged. “The Fashion Africa Now Podcast will be hosted by Beatrace Angut Oola, an interdisciplinary fashion curator and advocate, out of Germany. Beatrace has spearheaded the conversation around inclusivity, curated exhibitions in Europe and Africa and has also championed the best in class practitioners in Africa and the Diaspora, to name a few of her activities. Fashion Africa Now Podcast is an inspiring engagement that also offers an academic exchange and strives for business relevant topics. An episode will be released every two weeks on Spotify, iTunes, Apple, SoundCloud, Deezer and Stitcher. The F.A.N Podcast is supported by the Future Fashion project – a joint project initiated by the Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ), of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is committed to conscious and sustainable textile and fashion consumption. More information: https://fashionafricanow.com/podcast/

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - Heritage Aims For Excellency: Awa Meité

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - Heritage Aims For Excellency: Awa Meité

2021-02-25

Awa Meité, the Malian textile and fashion designer, epitomising power and humility. Awa debuted her unique handmade SS20 collection on the catwalks of Lagos Fashion Week, through unimagined fateful paths crossing. Awa Meité is known for her excellency and has been chosen to be part of Beyonce`s Black Is King visual album. This has given her and the community she pays homage to, the fabulously talented and dedicated cotton producers and craftsmen and women in Bamako, Mali, international recognition. Her creativity overflows into film-making, painting and styling, contributing to strengthening the creative economy in Mali. Awa provides insight into the international cotton and textile trade, narrating how she provides conscious solutions to her local community. A real gem, she represents handmade fashion, artisanship, craftsmanship made in Africa, sustainable and unique. “When you do the weaving you are writing a story…this person is buying a story…we are story-tellers.” The fusion of rich and diverse sub-nations, cultures, ideas and talents from the African continent, and by extension the African diaspora has produced irresistible trend-setting fashion, styles, aesthetics, sounds and a way of life globally. Yet in the shadows of this allure the conflict between slow fashion, sustainability in Africa and fast fashion is a conversation to be encouraged. “The Fashion Africa Now Podcast will be hosted by Beatrace Angut Oola, an interdisciplinary fashion curator and advocate, out of Germany. Beatrace has spearheaded the conversation around inclusivity, curated exhibitions in Europe and Africa and has also championed the best in class practitioners in Africa and the Diaspora, to name a few of her activities. Fashion Africa Now Podcast is an inspiring engagement that also offers an academic exchange and strives for business relevant topics. An episode will be released every two weeks on Spotify, iTunes, Apple, SoundCloud, Deezer and Stitcher. The F.A.N Podcast is supported by the Future Fashion project – a joint project initiated by the Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ), of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is committed to conscious and sustainable textile and fashion consumption. More information: https://fashionafricanow.com/podcast/

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - Side Effects Of Black Intellectual Women: Dr. Natasha A. Kelly

Fashion Africa Now Podcast - Side Effects Of Black Intellectual Women: Dr. Natasha A. Kelly

2021-03-02

Dialogues about Black aesthetics are necessary, according to Dr. Natasha A. Kelly. Dedicated to empowering and educating the Black community in Germany, the diaspora and strengthening the bond to Africa. Kelly is an academic, an author, a critical thinker, a visionary and an arts and culture shaker. You’ll hear her blunt perspective on institutional and structural racism, Black women and the Eurocentric gaze, digital racism, vector capitalism and tokenism - just some of the themes touched in this episode. “Colourism is a white aesthetic… Black is Black and Black is beautiful.” While Germany is one of the most progressive European countries, this does not apply when promoting the diversity of BIPoC in academia, fashion and media. However there are those whose work, voice and writings have been around for years and are worth engaging with, particularly after the reignited Black Lives Matter movement. The fusion of rich and diverse sub-nations, cultures, ideas and talents from the African continent, and by extension the African diaspora has produced irresistible trend-setting fashion, styles, aesthetics, sounds and a way of life globally. Yet in the shadows of this allure the conflict between slow fashion, sustainability in Africa and fast fashion is a conversation to be encouraged. “The Fashion Africa Now Podcast will be hosted by Beatrace Angut Oola, an interdisciplinary fashion curator and advocate, out of Germany. Beatrace has spearheaded the conversation around inclusivity, curated exhibitions in Europe and Africa and has also championed the best in class practitioners in Africa and the Diaspora, to name a few of her activities. Fashion Africa Now Podcast is an inspiring engagement that also offers an academic exchange and strives for business relevant topics. An episode will be released every two weeks on Spotify, iTunes, Apple, SoundCloud, Deezer and Stitcher. The F.A.N Podcast is supported by the Future Fashion project – a joint project initiated by the Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ), of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is committed to conscious and sustainable textile and fashion consumption. More information: https://fashionafricanow.com/podcast/

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