ARTD 3136: African Fashion, Textiles and Personal Adornment: African Dress: Fashion and Contemporary Art

Nov. 27: African Dress/Fashion and Contemporary Art – Yinka Shonibare

Hobbs, “Yinka Shonibare MBE: The Politics of Representation” in Yinka Shonibare MBE

Nov. 28 – 29: Thanksgiving Holiday, COLLEGE CLOSED (NO CLASSES)


Dec. 2: African Dress/Fashion and Contemporary Art – Malick Sidibe

Rabine “Fashionable Photography in Mid-Twentieth-Century Senegal” in Fashion Theory

Dec. 4:  African Dress/Fashion and Contemporary Art – Mary Sibande

FINAL RESEARCH PAPER DUE

Dec. 9: Appropriating Africa in Contemporary Fashion – Christian Dior 2020

• Ali Webb, See the African Collaborators Behind Dior Cruise 2020 

  In L'Officiel USA 05.02.2019
• Zama Mdoda, Dior's Appropriation: Resort Collection is a Plagiarized Mess 

  In Afropunk May 13, 2019
• Vanessa Friedman, Dior and the Line Between Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation 

  NY Times Critics Notebook, April 30, 2019

Dec. 11: LAST DAY OF CLASS, Review for Final

Dec. 13: READING DAY/FINAL EXAMS

FINAL EXAM: MONDAY, DECEMBER 16th, 1 – 3 PM!!