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Ghana: The West African culture hub kickstarting a fashion revolution

With Accra Fashion Week underway in Ghana, FRANCE 24's culture show Encore! travelled to the West African cultural hub to meet some of the designers kickstarting Africa's style revolution. Eve Jackson met up with Aisha Ayensu, the founder of trailblazing brand Christie Brown. She has dressed the likes of Alicia…

France 24

Fantastic plastic?: is there a future for the wonder material turned existential threat?

A Dundee exhibition traces the strange history of plastic from imitation ivory billiard balls to polluting particles – and asks if it can be rehabilitated

The Guardian - UK

Donatello’s David sculpture to go on display in UK for first time

Renaissance artist’s famous marble to form part of V&A exhibition exploring his cultural impact

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African fashion rules in British museum show, from chic dashikis to mud-dyed cloth

A new exhibit at Victoria and Albert Museum corrects the misperception that high fashion belongs to Western designers. The fierce garments attest to the motto of a Ghanaian: "West is not always best."

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V&A to display its first African fashion exhibition

Galleries will showcase designers who are often overlooked, in an effort to acknowledge colonial histories within the museum

The Guardian - UK

Is the V&A a temple of culture or a brothel?

The Conservative party’s latest £20,000-a-table function for donors at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a stain on one of our great institutions

The Guardian - UK

V&A acquires ‘autograph suit’ signed by stars at Baftas and Oscars

Outfit worn by costume designer Sandy Powell bought by charity boss who has given it to museum

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Fashioning Masculinities at the V&A Review: A marvellous celebration of gender fluidity

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s latest fashion blockbuster is a toe-dipping introduction seeking to defy our contemporary perceptions of masculinity, writes Harriet Hall

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