Ankara Fabrics New Fashion Craze?
ChiChi Ms.Media Lifestyle Diva, here with something that caught my attention recently!
Seems every day African fabric and fashions are used with todays latest Hollywood styles.
Seemed before it was crazy to go and buy a bundle of fabric and make your dress from scratch like we African ladies are so used to doing. Our beautiful, very coloful and vibrant Ankara fabrics has been seen on some of our biggest leading ladies Beyonce and Solange Knowles and even Alicia Keys have been spotted rocking our Ankara.
Should we be jealous or happy that they are sporting our wears? What do you think?
Singer MIA in Ankara at 2009's Grammys
Alicia Keys rocking a beautiful Purple and Yellow Ankara Dress
Solange and Fergie rock Ankara on Red Carpets everywhere
Solange Must really like Ankara
Here BEYONCE rocking Ankara fabric on set of her new video shoot with A.Keys
Ankara at its best!
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They won’t let us africans have anything. They use to make fun of our clothing and say it looks weird now they wanna steal our fashion after stealing our riches and labeling us terrorist and scammers. they can wear our clothes but they can’t even embrace the african heritage inside of them(AFrican Americans) they want 2 make fun of our names and our cultural differences yet they want to now rock our clothes. Ankara designs are unique and hard work goes into designing and sewing a dress (from the tailors presepective) now they are going to begin mass producing this shit in a warehouse resulting in it losing its value, uniqueness, and its connection to africa!!! instead of saying oh this is an african fabric…people are gonna say o i brought this from H&M fucking shit!!! assholes can’t we have anything????????????? and no i am not jealous i am phucking angry!!!
You have some good points but it could be a good thing and money generating business from Africa. If we can control it make sure it is only imported from Africa we can benefit from it. At the same time, it is good that celebrities are proud to wear Ankara, it might open more doors for us as Africans
Lovely dresses
@ Angry African, you should be ashamed of yourself, broadcasting your bigotry on the web. You speak like they are not africans, or is it because they are familiar with our ways. People like you are the problem, we should give them a nod for proudly rocking their african gear and not castigate them for trying to rip off the African Man. Dont you wear their clothes and still poke fun at their choice of names? Aren’t most of the ankara sewn styles fashioned after some “american” outfit? Or is this some sorta double standard?
This is great publicity for the ankara industry, and it is up to industry leaders to piggy back off of this and not expect a hand out. Life is not fair, if we want to get ahead we must take advantage of oppurtunities like this and not let the giants like H&M capitalize on our talent
Lazy mother suckers like you need to get off your lazy ass, quit complaining and do something.
And if you dont know what to do then shut the fuck up and remember ” there is wisdom silence”…..
I agree with angry Africa. I am from the West Indies and have lived in Africa, Nigeria specifically. To wear Ankara is to know your African heritage and accept being African… Anything short of thats is pure commercialism and vanity. … It will all just be a passing fad for money.
Wow ! I’m Loving the new ankara craze/trend. So Stylish !!!
Before we start crying about celebrities taking ankara from us, look closely at a piece of ankara..It’s actually Dutch so it’s not even ours in the first place! It’s imported from Holland. Do your research before ranting and raving.
~ When in Doubt, Google!
Made in Holland but do the dutch wear them??
and disappointed African Abeg o no vex you don’t have to call me out of my name just voicing my opinion which is still my opinion.
dissapointedafrican i don’t think there’s any reason to go ballistic ova angryafrican’s comment. we all have a write to voice our opinions. we should respect that fact even in differing. i personally feel that not only will they
wear the ankara but they’ll definitely take it from us cos i’m sure they’re going 2 get madly expensive with the US famous designers demanding for them 2 make clothes for their celebrity-client in high quantities. you know what they say ‘the higher the demand,…’ you can fill in the gap.
abeg did i just say a ‘write’!? hey! i don’t shoot arrow 4 international media! anyways i meant ‘right’.
As an African-American I am totally offended by the comments on this site. I feel like Africans should be happy to see there distant relatives embrace that part of Them for once. I never hear this many complaint when you see the Caucasian women parading around in this fabric. Most of us have no idea what that part of our history is about or have been made to feel ashamed about that part.
It is true that we do not know must about being African, but neither does people born and live outside of Africa who happens to have have African parents. Those of you who complain I feel should try to educate people about your culture if you really want people to know what it means to be African and embrace the culture.
I agree with Angry Africa. Regardless of where this fabric is made from,this is what we wear and take pride in so to let just anyone share it with us who is not African is unacceptable. first u take our ancestors, our music nw our sense of belonging. Wot will be left for us to transfer to the d next generation?
I am just so happy that Ankara is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
If the African Americans, Caucasians, Hispanics, Green people from Mars, Yellow, Blue and Red people want to wear it…let them!!!lol. Who are we to say one person is allowed to wear this and one person is not.
Silk came from China. So should the Chinese get upset too that almost everybody in the world has worn silk or used silk at some point in their life? In other words, what is the point of getting upset. Rather celebrate the fact that Ankara is now finally in “mainstream” fashion and I love it!!!
This is the “noughties” and while we are all entitled to our own opinions, I am still shocked at some of the comments here.
I just wanna shout….ANKARA FOR ALL!!!