1/ 🧵 The generation we see ourselves is engrossed with trends and mass-produced fashion which causes the cultural heritage not to be preserved and embraced anymore, particularly for Africans. #threadstorm #outreach
1/ 🧵 The generation we see ourselves is engrossed with trends and mass-produced fashion which causes the cultural heritage not to be preserved and embraced anymore, particularly for Africans. #threadstorm #outreach
2/ 🧵 Every continent across the globe comprises diverse cultures, each with its unique traditions, customs, and styles of attire. However, in this recent time, Western culture has superseded every other, causing a gradual loss of traditional fashion.
aesthetics do not have any universality and it could vary based on taste of different communities/societies. But when one aesthetic code comes in contact with another, out of cultural exchange it takes the shape of a new hybrid code.
3/ 🧵 This happening has also affected the African continent intensively and has resulted in undermining the economic and social potential of our fashion industry. #gosh
https://inleo.io/@johnuko/embracing-the-african-cultural-fashion
It is true that social and culture context forms the foundation of fashion trend, but it goes sophisticated with globalization where imported or exported culture gain prominence
It seems that globalization is the one that allows cultures to be affected as well as the way of dressing.
I guess it is something that happens everywhere in the world but the only thing we can do to preserve a culture is to maintain and enhance it.
I would like to mention to you that there is a small detail in the images you share. When you use a link to the image, use the one that has the address to the site where that same image is, that is to say that the link does not have to lead to the gallery where there are other images, but to a single image.
On the other hand, make sure they are royalty-free images that do not require the purchase of a membership.
Thank you for sharing your own perspective.
About the image sourcing and choice of images, I've taken note of the corrections. It won't repeat itself. Thank you for the kind gesture.
Culture has a dominant trait of continuity whereas fashion is well known as an unsettled phenomenon at any given time. That is why what was being adopted/followed as fashion 20 years ago, has now beome archaic, outmoded.