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BlackScissors
urge designers to complement African film
industry. Leading Zimbabwean ethnic
designers BlackScissors, have urged established and upcoming
fashion designers to complement filmmakers
in encouraging a continental
movie culture by lending more elegance
and glamour to the African
film industry. In a press release issued
during the just ended Zimbabwe
International Film Festival (ZIFF 2004),
BlackScissors said, "fashion designers can
be creatively complementary
in time, place, and sense to African
film productions being set in
different eras, or in settings they have
never experienced or
known." "If designers extend their
knowledge in fashion, their subtle use
of colour in designs,
functional detail, cut and fit, the wardrobe
becomes technically perfect," said
the designers. BlackScissors said,
"International film festivals such as ZIFF
offer opportunities of creative
expression, and if African costume
designers are involved in African
film projects, they will be on par with
world class couturiers and will
surely have a palpable influence on
public taste." Fashion captures the look
of any given society, recreates the
old reflects the modern, and
invents the future, evoking both present
and past historical ideas.
Fashion strengthens characters, adds
flamboyance, sophistication,
competence, ability and style. It creates images of
the working class, the
youthful, the adult, the party goers, and it
gives an edge of erotica, power,
and wealth as well as images matched
to people's
status. BlackScissors ,Zimbabwe's
futuristic design house was founded by
the versatile artist Novell
Zwangendaba, and Peter Rabvukwa (jr.) who
quit piloting to pursue
fashion. The duo has actively supported the
arts designing for leading
musicians, actors and TV presenters. CONTACT PERSON: Peter
(263-4-737280) Novell (263-4-728175) CONTACT EMAIL:
mashati@indexonline.org |
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