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GoSee Book Tip : ‘Pathé’O: Revolutionary Pionier of African Fashion’ - the turbulent life story of an African fashion icon (Edition Patrick Frey)

This book traces the extraordinary journey of Pathé’O, known for combining cultural commitment with entrepreneurial creativity. The fabrics and cuts crafted by a man who once tailored shirts for Nelson Mandela are considered ‘emancipatory statements’ according to NZZ.

Pathé’O’s fabrics are his trademark, and like no other, he is skilled in fusing global fashion trends with the breadth and depth of African textiles and knowledge, thus keeping the local heritage alive and continuously contributing to its evolution. The book published by Edition Patrick Frey is bound in fabric, which was produced by Pathé’O’s dyers for this purpose.

The craftsmanship of his creations enable a better understanding of the spectrum of fashion in West Africa, merging a global present with a rich cultural heritage. The book explores topics ranging from the fashion and textile industry to labor migration, cultural heritage, politics and showbiz, while bridging the past and present.

Pathé’O is an African fashion icon. Originally from Burkina Faso, he is known far beyond his adopted place of residence, Côte d’Ivoire. The designer’s visionary legacy has been influencing the aesthetic standards and experience of fashion on the African continent for more than 30 years and has also led to a recent collaboration with the fashion house Dior.

Designers are inspired by his distinct design aesthetics but also by his progressive approach to sustainability. For quite some time, it was common for politicians and celebrities of former French colonies in West Africa to dress in Western fashion. Pathé’O approached his work with the clear intention of raising appreciation among Africans for a local fashion style and industry.

During the 1980s, Pathé’O became friends with Thomas Sankara, the President of Upper Volta, later Burkina Faso, and a proponent of Pan-Africanism. Pathé’O was heavily influenced by Sankara’s decisiveness to promote local pride and cultural heritage, and from this point on, he solely relied on using locally produced fabrics. His creations became a contemporary tribute to cultural heritage, history and identity.

A further prominent encounter Pathé’O experienced was with Nelson Mandela, who was the first African president to choose his vibrant designs and light cotton fabrics over a Western business suit. And he was soon to be followed by other heads of state, as well as celebrities and sports stars, and of course, Madame et Monsieur Tout-le-Monde.

Design: HAMMER, softcover, cloth binding with cotton batik fabric, 21 x 28 cm, 462 pages, 360 color images, € 68, ISBN 978-3-907236-23-9 Edition Patrick Frey
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GoSee Book Tip : ‘Pathé’O: Revolutionary Pionier of African Fashion’ - the turbulent life story of an African fashion icon (Edition Patrick Frey)

This book traces the extraordinary journey of Pathé’O, known for combining cultural commitment with entrepreneurial creativity. The fabrics and cuts crafted by a man who once tailored shirts for Nelson Mandela are considered ‘emancipatory statements’ according to NZZ.

Pathé’O’s fabrics are his trademark, and like no other, he is skilled in fusing global fashion trends with the breadth and depth of African textiles and knowledge, thus keeping the local heritage alive and continuously contributing to its evolution. The book published by Edition Patrick Frey is bound in fabric, which was produced by Pathé’O’s dyers for this purpose.

The craftsmanship of his creations enable a better understanding of the spectrum of fashion in West Africa, merging a global present with a rich cultural heritage. The book explores topics ranging from the fashion and textile industry to labor migration, cultural heritage, politics and showbiz, while bridging the past and present.

Pathé’O is an African fashion icon. Originally from Burkina Faso, he is known far beyond his adopted place of residence, Côte d’Ivoire. The designer’s visionary legacy has been influencing the aesthetic standards and experience of fashion on the African continent for more than 30 years and has also led to a recent collaboration with the fashion house Dior.

Designers are inspired by his distinct design aesthetics but also by his progressive approach to sustainability. For quite some time, it was common for politicians and celebrities of former French colonies in West Africa to dress in Western fashion. Pathé’O approached his work with the clear intention of raising appreciation among Africans for a local fashion style and industry.

During the 1980s, Pathé’O became friends with Thomas Sankara, the President of Upper Volta, later Burkina Faso, and a proponent of Pan-Africanism. Pathé’O was heavily influenced by Sankara’s decisiveness to promote local pride and cultural heritage, and from this point on, he solely relied on using locally produced fabrics. His creations became a contemporary tribute to cultural heritage, history and identity.

A further prominent encounter Pathé’O experienced was with Nelson Mandela, who was the first African president to choose his vibrant designs and light cotton fabrics over a Western business suit. And he was soon to be followed by other heads of state, as well as celebrities and sports stars, and of course, Madame et Monsieur Tout-le-Monde.

Design: HAMMER, softcover, cloth binding with cotton batik fabric, 21 x 28 cm, 462 pages, 360 color images, € 68, ISBN 978-3-907236-23-9 Edition Patrick Frey
09.10.2023 show complete article

 

featured by GoSee ART : The book ‘WATER COLUMN’ by artist duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs whisks you away to the world beneath the water surface, appearing at Edition Patrick Frey, 2023

The depths of the sea have always kindled human imagination, for this is a realm in which anything seems possible, a vast screen onto which we project all sorts of bizarre notions and phantasmagorical visions. The deep sea obeys other laws, other rules, and more and more evidence suggests we might even find our origins there – and, in its storied layers of sediment, our ultimate end. Using a wide range of cutting-edge photographic tools and inventions, Swiss artist duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (both *1979) explore this uncharted world and create visual scenarios that inextricably fuse scientific research and science fiction.

WATER COLUMN’ revolves around a place, a realm, that directly surrounds us and yet for most of us is as distant and alien as only the vastness of space could be: the world beneath the surface of the water. Only through the use of elaborate technology are we able to dive ever deeper and explore these uncharted waters. Exploration however inevitably leads to exploitation, and we’re liable to destroy this underwater world before we even get a close look at it, let alone begin to understand it.

FUTURE is a two-part publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, appearing at Edition Patrick Frey over the course of three years. The first publication is entitled ‘FUTURE MEMORIES’, published in 2021, and deals with the question of how our idea of the future has changed over the past decades, how this affects our perception of the present, and how we face the coming changes.

In 1986, Swiss native Patrick Frey founded the publishing company Edition Patrick Frey, which has published more than 350 books to this day, above all, in the areas of art, artist books, photography and architecture. Many have received awards as ‘Most Beautiful Swiss Book’ from the Federal Office of Culture.


Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs WATER COLUMN . Text: Ingo Niermann, Design: Claudio Barandun . 22 x 28 cm, brochure, 96 pages, 64 color images, € 48.-, September 2023 . ISBN 78-3-907236-56-7 . Edition Patrick Frey

GoSee : editionpatrickfrey.com
03.10.2023 show complete article