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"African design isn't just about print.
African design would be included and meaningfulness for black people would be a necessity.
The vision of African design outside of Africa is overshadowed by foreign designers coming up with design solutions to help Africans with very basic needs - e.g. to prevent diseases such as Malaria, carrying water and such.
Which is why designers from all over the world share Roos's design studios, including renowned Turkish interior designer Yelda Bayraktar, who exports the cream of South African design to shops and hotels from Istanbul to Nigeria.
Repeating geometry, often a signature of African design, is seen in prints for Duro Olowu's fall collection (left), a sable tureen sculpted by the South African artist Sabelo Khoza and painted by Virginia Xaba (bottom center) and the ceiling of the contemporary architect David Adjaye's Asymmetric Chamber pavilion in Liverpool (bottom right).
You'll see chintz curtains mixed with African design.
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These are basic African designs our grandmothers wear these daily... any credit to African designers?
Another image uses world styles: Asian and African designs.
"Some ideas were coming straight from Sicily to England, including Arab north African designs.
The last gatekeeper to the president's office chastised Mr. Ouedraogo for wearing one of his African designs.
During six months of preproduction, she had shoppers scouring the globe for authentic African designs, like the traditional stacked neck rings worn by the Ndebele women of South Africa.
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