
Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession, an interview with Darnell-Jamal Lisby
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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How would you like to define this term Egyptomania? So it's just the fun part that we went to a few workshops to figure out. I stay typically along the lines around the fascination of ancient Egyptian culture seen primarily in Western art, architecture and fashion. And for our purposes that really translates to the aesthetics of Egypt right as kind of translated and viewed through the Western lens on their end is really what we're talking about.
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