{"id":7564,"date":"2013-07-17T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=7564"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:00:16","slug":"spotlight-afw-designer-ruqayyah-albaari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/spotlight-afw-designer-ruqayyah-albaari\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: AFW designer Ruqayyah Albaari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-611006544\" 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\/5963176258_a7ef6d44c5_z.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7565 alignleft lazyload\" alt=\"5963176258_a7ef6d44c5_z\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/07\/5963176258_a7ef6d44c5_z.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Ruqayyah prefers to describe herself as\u00a0&#8220;someone who creates tangible objects that serve as an extension of myself and my personal aesthetic.&#8221; Now that&#8217;s deep. She&#8217;s influenced by\u00a0science, nature, textures, minimalism and the cultures of people of color from around the world. She was especially inspired by Aztec as well as West African art for her Amoeba collection. Read the full Q&amp;Africa interview here;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork2013\/01\/q-and-africa-meet-ruqayyah-albaari-aka-ruru-jungle\/<\/p><div id=\"afric-2338866236\" 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-452137426\" 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>Ruqayyah prefers to describe herself as\u00a0&#8220;someone who creates tangible objects that serve as an extension of myself and my personal aesthetic.&#8221; Now that&#8217;s deep. She&#8217;s influenced by\u00a0science, nature, textures, minimalism and the cultures of people of color from around the world. She was especially inspired by Aztec as well as West African art for her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[89,128,90,102,81,103,82,83,1430,94,581,25,86,283,911],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-africa","tag-africa-fashion","tag-africa-fashion-week","tag-africa-fashion-week-in-new-york","tag-africa-fashion-week-new-york","tag-african-designer","tag-african-designers","tag-african-fashion","tag-african-influences","tag-afwny","tag-black-fashion","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-africa","tag-luxury","tag-luxury-african-fashion"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","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=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/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=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}