{"id":1222,"date":"2016-06-27T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:00:43","slug":"africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/blog\/africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1144756.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\"    data-animation-override><p>     <span>&#8220;<\/span>Vaguely pinning down a collection\u2019s inspiration as \u2018Africa\u2019 with words such as \u2018tribal\u2019, \u2018primitive\u2019, \u2018wild\u2019 or \u2018ethnic\u2019, bongo drums and animal prints, completely reduces an entire continent into a few archaic and racist stereotypes<span>&#8221;<\/span>   <\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"source\">&mdash; Dazed Fashion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everything has started with the controversial <strong>Valentino SS16<\/strong> show inspired by &#8220;Wild Africa&#8221;, featuring a cast of largely white models wearing bone necklaces and cornrow hairstyles. Despite the clear quality of Valentino&#8217;s show, it has outraged many African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>This situation is different for <strong>Givenchy<\/strong>:&nbsp;When you think of heavy metal fans, you probably don\u2019t picture Botswanans, but the country has a niche but thriving subculture, where music devotees dress up their band t-shirts with biker leathers, Wild West fringing and cowboy hats. Riccardo Tisci with his AW16 proves that you can look at Africa beyond the clich\u00e9s of &#8220;tribal&#8221; and &#8220;primitive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that this is more than ever desirable for fashion in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-asset-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so over &#8220;tribal&#8221; and &#8220;primitive&#8221; clich\u00e9s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_additional_keywords":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":["index"],"rank_math_breadcrumb_title":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_facebook_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_twitter_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_card_type":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends","tag-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}