Fashion Unpicked: red velvet dress and elegant organza grand boubou | V&A
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2022
- Join Curator Elisabeth Murray as she examines an embroidered 'grand boubou' and velvet dress from the wardrobe of adult education specialist and women's literacy advocate - Professor Lalage Jean Bown OBE (1927 - 2021).
Lalage Bown spent her career working to establish and expand adult education programs in Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and Nigeria, with a particular focus on the empowerment of women through literacy. She was also instrumental in promoting the incorporation of work by African authors into university curricula, which led to the publication of her book Two Centuries of African English in 1973. A woman of sartorial flair, whilst living in Africa between 1949 and 1981 she amassed a large wardrobe. Typically purchasing clothes from popular local tailors and dressmakers, she'd take recommendations from her students and wear the fashionable styles of the moment.
Made by a local tailor in Dakar, Senegal, Lalage Bown's elegant organza grand boubou features machine-embroidered silver flowers, and has a head-tie in the same fabric. Accompanied by a dark green pagne (skirt) along with a sleeveless peplum top, this piece was designed to make a statement. Her made-to-measure red velvet dress was created by Nigerian fashion designer, Shade Thomas Fahm, to receive her OBE at Buckingham Palace. Complete with a matching hat styled to look like a gèlè (head wrap), Shade recalled the cold English weather and swapped her usual soft silks, for a rich, red velvet.
Find out more about Professor Lalage Bown: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-life...
Meet iconic fashion designer Shade Thomas Fahm: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/nigeri...
See more Fashion Unpicked films: • Fashion Unpicked
See her outfits in the Africa Fashion exhibition until 16 April 2023: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/afr... - Розваги
The grand boubou is absolutely exquisite.
That green piece!!! Wow.
Saw these pieces in the Africa fashion exhibit yesterday, among others. They definitely look stunning up close under this different lighting too!
It must be a beautiful exhibit.
Gosh how gorgeous and what an amazing forward thinking woman Lalage Jean Bown and the designer Shade both of whom I have never heard of till now, thank you
The grand boubou is amazing, I want to wear it, it must feel wonderful!
Beautiful ❤️
The Grand Boubou is stunning!
soooooooooooo beautiful!!!!!! 😍💚❤️👏🏻🙏🏻👌🏼💯⭐🌞💟
Stunning!
Stunning! Thank you for sharing.
The embroidery is beautiful
Exquisite pieces. Hope I will see them in person one day.
Exquisite collection!
Maravillosa. 👏🏽🙌🏽✨
thank you ... wish I was in London for the exhibition, it look amazing
I would like a gown called a Grande BouBou … sadly none of mine xxx
I'd wear this for a relaxed political meeting at my imaignary humble palace. I'd walk down the dairs, Elizabeth Taylor-style very pleasant yet untouchable. Oooh what couture does to the creative imagination 😌
Good, good.
African influence is to me the highest order of taste. Its history is the worlds most important history. It makesnme sad cus it wasmt reLl6 till these past few years ive learned as much as i have about african history and world history is always going to have to turn to africa for the answers to its past. Incredible history amd it makes me sad that the internet just recently started flooding me with history lessons. If ur some ignorant white american like me.....who lives wod histlry but just wasnt shown much cus it was supressed a lot....the lids are getting blown off. And i fkn love african history. I havnt felt this excited to learn stuff inna while. I had kimda just didnt get to see it amd now its everywhere and it always was.
Weird
What??
I have always believed that the African designer are ahead of everyone else.
All so beautiful and I think timeless. Flattering to any figure as well. I would wear any of these if I had the opportunity. Unfortunately as an old white woman I would hate to be accused of appropriating a style that doesn't belong to me. That's a thing now I hear. Still being me I love them and would wear them. On a side note, my doctor is from Ghana and I love him. He is a wonderful man. I know that has nothing to do with fashion but humor me. I'm old but I have good taste in clothes and men.
Isn’t it sad that if we want to wear a style because we love it, we would be accused of denigrating a heritage in doing so! It’s a sad commentary on our world right now.
@@ruadhscottygirl2480 Yes it's sad but true. But a benefit of age is we can wear what we love!
Nonsense, Lalage herself was white! The number of people who actually think this way is so small, they're just noisy.
@@ruadhscottygirl2480 it only works one way though as black people “appropriate” white culture every day.
That "rectangle of cloth with a hole in it" has many names in many cultures. Poncho, cape, mantle, .... any cloth-making culture had something similar.
Not impressed.