Video: Incredible Africa: a fashion dictated by nature itself
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Seeing the colorful makeup of bright yellow, dazzling white and rich red, seeing lush accessories and extraordinary jewelry, you can take this riot of colors for the feverish fantasy of one of the trendsetters. But in fact, all this splendor has nothing to do with the catwalks of New York, London or Paris, being the handiwork of the East African tribes Surma and Mursi.
Nomadic tribes do not have architecture or crafts to pursue their artistic tastes. For this purpose, only their own faces and bodies remain, and I must say that this is already a lot: inspired by wild plants, exotic flowers and lush greenery of places located on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, fashionistas from African tribes create images that are not inferior in entertainment and creativity to the creations of Western fashion designers.
For example, leaves or roots become fashion accessories. Instead of a scarf, a bunch of bananas is wrapped around the neck, and a bunch of grass takes the place of the hat with casual grace. Garlands of flowers, horns of bison, wreaths of feathers, fruits, branches - Mother Nature on the African continent takes care of satisfying the tastes of the most capricious fashionista.
Once the main purpose of applying bright colors to the body and using jewelry was the desire to frighten the enemy. But now, looking at the faces of African women from these tribes, it seems that they decorate themselves in this way solely for their own aesthetic pleasure.
All of these photographs, taken by German photographer Hans Silvester and later published in Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa, prove that an African fashion parade is unlike any other in the world. It is a hymn to the magnificent nature of the tropics and another confirmation of the fact that Africa knows how to delight and surprise. Including in fashion.
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