Sentences with phrase «in dashikis»

Last week: We entered the wondrous world of Wakanda, the fictional East African city, dressed in dashikis, all black and looking as royal as the cast of the now historic movie «Black Panther.»

Beautiful colours in that dashiki!

The body — whether nude or clad in a dashiki (or, for that matter, a flag)-- becomes, according to Miller, an index of political commitment.

Not exact matches

Colorful dashikis were in stark contrast with the «Make America Great Again» caps and scowls from white bystanders, angry at what they saw.

Since the late 1960's, the dashiki shirt continues to be worn by African - Americans embracing their African heritage and promoting «black is beautiful,» and signaled a return to African roots, and insistence on full rights in American society.

In 1967, Jason Benning coined the modern term «dashiki» (The name dashiki comes from the word «danshiki» or «dan ciki» means «shirt» in Yoruba and Hausa, languages spoken in West Africa, specifically NigeriaIn 1967, Jason Benning coined the modern term «dashiki» (The name dashiki comes from the word «danshiki» or «dan ciki» means «shirt» in Yoruba and Hausa, languages spoken in West Africa, specifically Nigeriain Yoruba and Hausa, languages spoken in West Africa, specifically Nigeriain West Africa, specifically Nigeria).

There were laid back rompers with eye popping Aztec prints in oranges and blue, sheer silk crepe tunics, and dashikis with neon embroideries (a nod to her swimwear collection).

This weekend, I scrolled through Twitter joyously taking in all the pictures of beautiful black people dressed in kente cloth, dashikis and African prints heading to the theatre to revel in this momentous occasion.

He includes so many small details that will resonate with grandparents and great - grandparents as they read to their little ones: the dashiki - clad mother with a stroller in New York, the chubby baby in a cloth diaper, the stack of Ebony and Jet magazines, white socks and Converse sneakers, Prince and Keith Haring posters on the wall, the minivan and the large family at a reunion in the park.

Where They Satisfy ostensibly refers to the cigarette dangling from the mouth of the uniformed woman sporting a seductive countenance, the cigarette also plays a prominent visual role in Farewell Uncle Tom, though the title emphasizes assertively black cultural politics signaled by the couple's natural hairstyles and dashikis.

Although there is no record of Norman Rockwell donning an African dashiki or sitting in a lotus position chatting Om while painting in his Stockbridge, Massachusetts, studio, he is a man who kept up with the times.

In a colorful dashiki print suit, the artist wheeled in on his customized chair, designed, he once told me at an exhibition at Pace Gallery, so that he can crane up and chat at cocktail parties, eye to eyIn a colorful dashiki print suit, the artist wheeled in on his customized chair, designed, he once told me at an exhibition at Pace Gallery, so that he can crane up and chat at cocktail parties, eye to eyin on his customized chair, designed, he once told me at an exhibition at Pace Gallery, so that he can crane up and chat at cocktail parties, eye to eye.

At an earlier time in his life, David Hammons was practicing a certain breed of street art: donning a dashiki, khakis and pumas, he took a piss on famed mega-artist Richard Serra's T.W.U sculpture in 1981, a territorializing fuck - you to the gentrifying of Tribeca.

And anybody can see how similar it is to the dashiki, beloved of dignified Africans and somewhat less dignified Americans in the initial days of the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.