My new article on Selly Raby Kane is out
Last month “Selly Raby Kane: surrealist designer and social innovator” was published in Fashion Studies, as a downloadable and freely accessible paper.
Citation: Picarelli, Enrica. “Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator.” Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. , www.fashionstudies.ca/selly-raby-kane/
This is a milestone for my research, that I have had to put aside for other, more pressing, job duties, and am really glad to share it with my readers.
SRK for Fast Company magazine
Kane is one of my first case studies. I wrote about her in Blacks to the Future and gave a presentation comparing her work and that of Dear Ribane at MAXXI, Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, on the occasion of a study day on Afrofuturism last October.
The paper takes those discussions further, highlighting Kane’s role as a social innovator who follows in the footsteps of notable predecessors, like Oumou Sy to re-position Dakar as a global hub of fashion and art.
*Cover image: Richard Hughes, SRK for Fast Company Magazine