{"id":11937,"date":"2011-05-12T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=614"},"modified":"2011-05-12T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:31:53","slug":"afias-fair-trade-fashion-gives-west-african-traditions-a-modern-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/afias-fair-trade-fashion-gives-west-african-traditions-a-modern-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Afia\u2019s Fair-Trade Fashion Gives West African Traditions a Modern Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-617 lazyload\" title=\"Presentation1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/05\/Presentation17-1024x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho doesn\u2019t love Friday?\u201d asks Meghan Sebold, founder of the breakout fashion label, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopafia.com\/home.html\">Afia<\/a>.  We couldn\u2019t agree more. According to Sebold, whose studies in Ghana led  to the creation of her company, everyone is given a bonus name based on  the day they were born. For Sebold, her Friday birth made her known as  \u201cAfia Meghan.\u201d Everything, it seems, is better in twos. By fusing the  brilliance of Ghanaian cotton wax textiles with silhouettes designed to  emphasize womanly curves, Afia is a standout new label, with a name and  aesthetic that blend tradition with modernity, exoticism with the  familiar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecouterre.com\/afias-fair-trade-fashion-gives-west-african-traditions-a-modern-twist\/\">Ecouterre <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho doesn\u2019t love Friday?\u201d asks Meghan Sebold, founder of the breakout fashion label, Afia. We couldn\u2019t agree more. According to Sebold, whose studies in Ghana led to the creation of her company, everyone is given a bonus name based on the day they were born. For Sebold, her Friday birth made her known as \u201cAfia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}