Kangas appearead in previous posts on this site in connection with Suno, density and ‘60s designs. If you like kangas and can’t afford designer clothes inspired by them and happen to be in London, the British Museum shop has a selection of made in Kenya kangas by Gala Cloth Wear Ltd on sale (£10.99 rather than £15.99) in quite beautiful colours and with the traditonal Swahili aphorisms characterising them.
I recently picked one in a prune/rusty orange/pink tone with an aphorim that says "Usilie Kwa Uchungu Kifo Kimepangwa Na Mungu (that should mean: "Weep not for pain, Death has been arranged by God") and I think I will try and redo with it one of Bou-Boutique’s 1967 A-line dresses like the ones in the picture above (but for further inspirations you can try and come up with something else inspired maybe by Janice Wainwright's designs in this video from the ‘60s).
If you fancy instead knowing more about Kenya, the book Kenya by Michael Poliza & Friends (that is fellow photographers Steve Bloom, Paul Mckenzie, and Federico Veronesi), will be out in October published by teNeues.
The volume takes the reader on a journey from Lake Turkana and the Chalbi Desert in the North to the Masai Mara National Reserve and Amboseli National Park in the South and will surely provide some wonderful inspirations thanks to its landscapes, aerial shots, images of animals and, above all, portraits of Maasai in their colourful attires.
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