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If you attended the 2014 Folklife Festival, you may have seen a group of stately, rainbow-ribbon-bedecked Kenyan men getting stopped often for photographs
Under the simple white tent labeled “Adornment Arts” in the Kenya: Mambo Poa program area, three women concentrated intensely on their work.
The khanga, a vibrantly colored East African cloth, was created on the island of Zanzibar in the mid-1880s.
Earle Bannister, a Baltimore tailor, talks to presenter Althea Grey-McKenzie about the history of voguing, a dance style that originated in the African American and Latino American LGBT ballroom communities of the 1980s.
Milliner Anthony Gaskins discussed the history of hats in the African American community and also displayed some of his work in a fashion show at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Designer Lubna Muhammad creates clothing fashions for Muslim women.
Januwa Moja celebrates the African diaspora through her work as an artist and designer.
Clothing designer Brenda Winstead collaborates with West African artisans—incorporating traditional hand-woven and hand-dyed fabrics to create contemporary garments.
Januwa Moja is an artist and designer who celebrates the African Diaspora through the creation of wearable art.
Curator Diana Baird N’Diaye introduces the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program The Will to Adorn.
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