N. 19 (2023): Corpi performativi. Il progetto verso il futuro, fra arti multimediali e aurore digitali
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Un ossimoro: globalizzazione identitaria della moda africana

Elia Fiorenza
Biografia

Pubblicato 21-01-2025

Parole chiave

  • Society,
  • Clothing,
  • Reprezentation

Abstract

In the contemporary society, where the guarantee of order and sense of sowing will
come less, the encounter of individuals coming from nationalities and different cultures
exponentially enlarges the sense of uncertainty. The reality appears so disorganized, liquid,
provisional and, as such, deprived of stable points of reference. In this answer, clothing
carries out an absolutely relevant function because establishes the identity of a populace
and contestually, twenty concrete figures of the cultural evolution and of the type of society
that generates it: represents, so, a metaphorical vettore, an instrument of communication
that I consent to receive and, at the same time, gives strategic information to the individual
individual and his background. Certainly in the last five hundred years it has been the state

of writing and fashion. On the Black Continent there are twenty identity symbols of a fas-
cinating populace and favorable characters of a globally ornate global fashion.