Volume 2, Issue 1, #7 - 2019
Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator
By Enrica picarelli
DOI: 10.38055/FS020107
MLA: Picarelli, Enrica. “Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator.” Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, 1-31. www.fashionstudies.ca/selly-raby-kane/, https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
APA: Picarelli, E. (2019). Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist designer and Social Innovator. Fashion Studies, 2(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
Chicago: Picarelli, Enrica. “Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator.” Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
Abstract:
Selly Raby Kane is a renowned Senegalese fashion designer and artist involved in Africa’s booming art and design movement. Kane is an interesting case study to grasp fashion’s involvement in Africa’s current debate surrounding identity and empowerment through innovation. This article discusses Kane’s designs in light of her contribution not only to contemporary approaches to African fashion that emphasize individuality, but also to effecting change through fashion, examining the ways in which she mixes symbols, signs, and techniques of African and international cultures to inscribe Africa, and Senegal in particular, into the global fashionscape.
Keywords:
Selly Raby Kane
Afropolitanism
Senegal
African fashion
surrealism