{"id":7516,"date":"2013-07-11T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=7516"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:01:14","slug":"the-allure-of-african-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/the-allure-of-african-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"The allure of African fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-80554066\" 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\/2013\/07\/Christie-Brown-Resort-Collection-2013-January-2013-BellaNaija0011-466x600.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7517 lazyload\" alt=\"Christie-Brown-Resort-Collection-2013-January-2013-BellaNaija0011-466x600\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/07\/Christie-Brown-Resort-Collection-2013-January-2013-BellaNaija0011-466x600.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article is surely needed. We can all see the rising fascination with African fashion and African inspired fashion. It started as something African designers did to show that they&#8217;re proud of their heritage, but now even designers with no direct African ancestry are doing it! What makes this style of fashion so alluring? Check out bits of the December\/January 2013 issue of New African Woman magazine here;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bellanaija.com\/2013\/01\/21\/the-rising-allure-of-african-fashion-inside-new-african-woman-magazines-january-2013-issue\/<\/p><div id=\"afric-1839842724\" 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-2364474344\" 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>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This article is surely needed. We can all see the rising fascination with African fashion and African inspired fashion. It started as something African designers did to show that they&#8217;re proud of their heritage, but now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[89,82,83,1859,104,197,298,547,581,1405,25,854,265,234,1436],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-africa","tag-african-designers","tag-african-fashion","tag-african-fashion-magazine","tag-african-luxury","tag-african-models","tag-african-print","tag-bella-naija","tag-black-fashion","tag-black-models","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-magazine","tag-magazine","tag-nigeria","tag-west-african-fashion"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","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=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/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=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}