The Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded. Christine Checinska, the curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the V&A, said the exhibition was overdue. “So whether it’s Morocco to South Africa or Ghana in the west, [we want] to try to strategically break down those old colonial boundaries.”Located in the fashion galleries, Africa Fashion is divided into two parts. Other cases explore the work of fashion designers – some of whom are household names across Africa, but are little known outside the continent. Africa Fashion purposely does not address this hot-button issue.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2022 12:11 UTC