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Africa-made luxury loungewear takes on big brands
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 32, Issue 2, Aug 2018, p. 12 - 13
- French
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- 08 Aug 2018
Abstract
For centuries, unfinished materials for clothing manufacture—silk, cotton, hides—have been sold and shipped from Africa to the fashion capitals of the West, such as London, Paris and New York. In return, a small number of ready-to-wear clothes, cheap shoes and secondhand garments head back to Africa—at vastly marked-up prices or as charity donations.
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