Maki Oh releases a new
collection for Fall 2015/16. The brand explores the idea of adopted identities as a
result of West Africa’s history with cultural appropriation.
According to the brand -
“As an advocate for all things truly African, Maki Oh uses true African textiles like Adire, Aso-oke, Akwa Ocha, Oja and more to continue to illustrate to the world (and Africans) that we have desirable, couture quality local textiles. Ankara fabric (Dutch Wax) does not have it’s origins in Africa. It is imported from Holland, India, Turkey, China and even England. But the world, and even some Africans think this fabric is African. Holland’s Vlisco’s current website proudly states “Vlisco has been romancing the men and women of Central and West Africa for almost 170 years and has been embraced as the very fabric of life in many societies.“
This
season’s collection is particularly fascinated with how these fabrics
were perceived to be African, along with other concepts that have been
adopted from continents around the world, and how they have found home
in West Africa. The fabrics used in the Fall 2015/16 collection are
filled with silhouettes, prints and embellishments that have been
inspired by total adoption of foreign ideas that also have similar
reference to traditional Nigerian attire.
We love the collection but there seems to be a distracting factor, The footwears.
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