{"id":1983,"date":"2011-07-09T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=1983"},"modified":"2011-07-09T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:21:15","slug":"an-american-classic-steps-in-a-new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/an-american-classic-steps-in-a-new-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Classic Steps In a New Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-1266077237\" class=\"afric-before-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-Banner\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad>\r\n<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/07\/africachucks.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1984 lazyload\" title=\"africachucks\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/07\/africachucks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>Fab Africa! is an online boutique designed to bring you fashion made from West African textiles infused with a 21st century touch.\u00a0 They have everything from more affordable items to high end luxuries, and they work directly with manufacturers in Africa.\u00a0 Looking through I found a lot of really great items, but these sneakers stuck out to me.\u00a0 They reminded of of the classic American Chuck Taylor High Tops, but with a unique African spin that you can probably find nowhere else.\u00a0 They&#8217;re simple enough to throw on when you just need to go run an errand, but they will surely make any outfit pop!\u00a0 And, they have them in a variety of different patterns, colors, and prints.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabafrica.co.uk\/products\/ABI.html\">Fab Africa!<\/a><\/p><div id=\"afric-2962889455\" class=\"afric-inbody afric-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><!-- \/21718337565\/AFW300 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0' style='width: 300px; height: 250px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"afric-1881148807\" class=\"afric-after-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-bottom\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fab Africa! is an online boutique designed to bring you fashion made from West African textiles infused with a 21st century touch.\u00a0 They have everything from more affordable items to high end luxuries, and they work directly with manufacturers in Africa.\u00a0 Looking through I found a lot of really great items, but these sneakers stuck&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[454,83,298,455,456],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-african-fabric","tag-african-fashion","tag-african-print","tag-chuck-taylor-high-tops","tag-fab-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/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=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}