The Dior and Amoako Boafo Celebrate Black Excellence, Creativity and Portraiture With an All-New Summer 2021 Collection
The Dior x Amoako Boafo Summer 2021 collection represents an intimate, all-encompassing and honest cultural dialogue based on true mutual admiration
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In an intimate, all-encompassing and honest cultural dialogue which began as early as 2019, Dior Men?s Artistic Director Kim Jones unveils his special collaboration with Accra, Ghana-born, Vienna-trained artist Amoako Boafo. Having met at a repurposed DEA warehouse, better known as the Miami Rubell Museum, where contemporary works by emerging and established artists are showcased ? the duo formed what has since been described as ?love at first sight?, an electric bond based on true mutual admiration. The Dior and Amoako Boafo Celebrate Black Excellence, Creativity and Portraiture With an All-New Summer 2021 Collection
As a constant and infinite source of inspiration for the house of Dior, Kim Jones had spent much of his childhood years travelling across the African countries of Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana. Crediting these places for molding his formative images of life, Jones has always maintained a great adulation for the continent?s nature, culture, and people, which he aims to reflect in his latest collection.
Expressing and mixing different cultures and techniques, whilst exploring perceptions of blackness and masculinity in particular, Amoako Boaf...
The post The Dior and Amoako Boafo Celebrate Black Excellence, Creativity and Portraiture With an All-New Summer 2021 Collection appeared first on LUXUO.
In an intimate, all-encompassing and honest cultural dialogue which began as early as 2019, Dior Men?s Artistic Director Kim Jones unveils his special collaboration with Accra, Ghana-born, Vienna-trained artist Amoako Boafo. Having met at a repurposed DEA warehouse, better known as the Miami Rubell Museum, where contemporary works by emerging and established artists are showcased ? the duo formed what has since been described as ?love at first sight?, an electric bond based on true mutual admiration. The Dior and Amoako Boafo Celebrate Black Excellence, Creativity and Portraiture With an All-New Summer 2021 Collection
As a constant and infinite source of inspiration for the house of Dior, Kim Jones had spent much of his childhood years travelling across the African countries of Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana. Crediting these places for molding his formative images of life, Jones has always maintained a great adulation for the continent?s nature, culture, and people, which he aims to reflect in his latest collection.
Expressing and mixing different cultures and techniques, whilst exploring perceptions of blackness and masculinity in particular, Amoako Boaf...
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