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Kirkland, Teleica (2024) Callaloo People: The Designs of Robert Young and Celia Ledón. In: Africa's Fashion Diaspora. Yale University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9780300270730
| Type of Research: | Book Section |
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| Creators: | Kirkland, Teleica |
| Description: | This chapter discusses the work of two Caribbean fashion designers and how they have sought to represent particular factors indicative to their islands in their designs. The effects of the 60+ year embargo on Cuba is looked at in the work of Celia Ledon and the use of carnival and the idea of Callaloo people (a Trinidadian terms referring to a mixture of different people) is analysed in the fashion of Robert Young from design house The Cloth. |
| Official Website: | https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300270730/africas-fashion-diaspora/ |
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Caribbean studies, Caribbean politics, multiculturalism |
| Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Yale University Press |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion |
| Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Funders: | Fashion Institute of Technology |
| Related Websites: | https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/africas-fashion-diaspora/index.php |
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| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2024 09:11 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 09:11 |
| Item ID: | 22636 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/22636 |
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