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Though we're 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day we all get dressed.

We welcome to dress the history of fashion.

A podcast where we explore the who went when of why we were.

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary.

Africa fashion means the past, the future, and the present at the same time.

The joy of life and the joy of color is completely different and very particular to the continent.

It's a language of heritage, it's a language of DNA, it's a language of memories.

So this quote is by the Moroccan-based fashion designer, Artsy,

and it speaks to the language the threads have you that distinguish and connect African fashion

designers to their histories, cultures, and to one another.

And this quote in Artsy's work with his label, Maison Artsy,

are featured in the landmark Victoria and Albert exhibition, Africa Fashion,

on view until April 16, 2023.

And this exhibition is, of course, something our guest today, Dr. Christine Chikenska,

returns to discuss with us in part two of our conversation.

Christine is a senior curator, Africa and diaspora,

textiles and fashion at the VNA.

And on Tuesday's episode, she walked us through the exhibition section by section

before discussing the long history of Africa fashion and the politics and poetics of cloth.

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