African Luxury
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African Luxury
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Author : Mehita Iqani
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2020-01-15
African Luxury written by Mehita Iqani and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with Aesthetics, African categories.
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved," and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising," African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually, and analytically, this collection dismantles taken-for-granted ideas that the West is the source and focus of high-end and hyper-desirable material cultures. It explores what the culture of consumption means in Africa in both historical and contemporary contexts, studying diverse luxury phenomena including fashion advertising, reality television, retail, gendered consumption, and gardening to re-center the discussion on existing contemporary luxury cultures across the continent.
Africa In Fashion
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Author : Ken Kweku Nimo
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-05-05
Africa In Fashion written by Ken Kweku Nimo and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with Design categories.
Africa in Fashion explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of contemporary and avant-garde African brands. Part One looks at Africa's rich cultural heritage and place in the network of global fashion. The first chapter retells the history of African fashion, exploring Africa's textile traditions, artisanship and role as a global resource. The second chapter presents a New Africa and examines the promise and potential of Africa's markets, while challenging stereotypes and the concept of European hegemony particularly in the realm of luxury fashion. It also spotlights Africa's unique position as the global industry shifts towards a more sustainable future. Part Two ushers the reader into the spectacular world of African fashion today. It showcases a carefully curated set of the continent's most dynamic brands and, through interviews with prominent and inspiring designers, offers rare insight into their ethos and design practice. Covering unisex fashion, menswear, womenswear, accessories and jewellery the brands are each purposefully selected to contribute uniquely to the mosaic of Africa evolving creative landscape.
African Luxury Branding
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Author : Mehita Iqani
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-23
African Luxury Branding written by Mehita Iqani and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Bringing together critical race, queer and decolonial analytical approaches, visual analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, this book explores the discursive strategies deployed by African luxury brands in an age of cross-platform, intertextual branding. Building on literature examining the aesthetics and politics of African luxury, this book demonstrates how leading African luxury brands create visual material speaking to complex sensibilities of culture, nature, and future. Iqani shows how powerful brand narratives and strategies reveal ethical and ideological messages that function to re-position Africa in an increasingly congested global marketplace of ideas. In acknowledging that there is a strong political validity to recognizing the importance of African brands staking their claim in luxury, this book also problematizes the role these brands play in the promotion of luxury discourses, advancing the project of capitalism and their contribution to broader patterns of inequality. Shedding new light not only on luxury branding strategies but also on the idea of a luxurious global “Africanicity” and on the complex cultural politics of South Africa, African Luxury Branding will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in disciplines, including Critical Advertising Studies, African Studies, Media and Communications.
Luxury Brands In Emerging Markets
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Author : G. Atwal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-07
Luxury Brands In Emerging Markets written by G. Atwal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is an invaluable repository of knowledge that brings clarity to key issues and trends for practitioners, academics and students of luxury brands. It sets out to decode the luxury markets in the primary emerging markets (BRICs) and provide a rich resume of the key factors that influence the effectiveness of luxury brand strategies.
Luxury Hotels
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Author : Martin Nicholas Kunz
language : de
Publisher: teNeues
Release Date : 2005
Luxury Hotels written by Martin Nicholas Kunz and has been published by teNeues this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Hotels categories.
This fourth volume of teNeues's series on luxury hotels around the world takes the reader to luxurious hotels in Africa and the Middle East. Let your fantasy take flight as you browse intriguing photographs of Arabian palaces straight out of ?1001 Nights.' Or, revel in the sumptuous surroundings of a lavishly appointed oasis hostelry. ?Out of Africa? comes to life when you see a luxurious safari encampment in the midst of the African bush, sure to please even the pickiest of ?big game hunters. Also prominently featured are the exotic island resorts of Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Zanzibar. ? An indispensable illustrated guide to a select collection of luxury hotels in Africa and the Middle East ? Appealing to both those who plan to travel in grand style through Africa and the Middle East, and to those who fantasize about doing so
South African American Survey
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Author : Henry Martin Moolman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
South African American Survey written by Henry Martin Moolman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with South Africa categories.
Creating African Fashion Histories
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Author : JoAnn McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Creating African Fashion Histories written by JoAnn McGregor and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Art categories.
Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.
African Fashion Global Style
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Author : Victoria L. Rovine
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-12
African Fashion Global Style written by Victoria L. Rovine and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-12 with Art categories.
African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.
Modernizing Vats In Africa
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Author : Sijbren Cnossen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-07-12
Modernizing Vats In Africa written by Sijbren Cnossen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Most African countries are in dire need of more tax revenue. In 28 out of 45 countries with a value-added tax (VAT), total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is around 15% or less, falling short of what is necessary to finance basic human and economic development. Far from being revenue-raising instruments, current African VATs are riddled with exemptions, exclusions, and zero rates on domestic goods and services that depress revenue, are highly distortionary, and greatly complicate the administration of VAT. Modernizing VATs in Africa enables policymakers, professionals, and students to analyse African tax systems to ascertain how they can be modernized. It explains the case for VAT base-broadening over rate-increasing, arguing that exemptions and zero rates mainly accrue benefits for higher-income groups. Even more persuasively, it demonstrates that the net result of fiscal systems can be equalizing if the revenue of broad-based VATs is used to finance in-kind transfers, such as healthcare and education. VAT modernization should be used to enable governments to finance development; Modernizing VATs in Africa puts a compelling case forward for how and why this can be achieved.
Africans In The Old South
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Author : Randy J. Sparks
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Africans In The Old South written by Randy J. Sparks and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.