The word ‘nostalgia’ comes from two Greek roots: nostos, which means ‘return home’ and algos, which means ‘longing’. At first glance, nostalgia ostensibly means longing for a place, a spatial and geographic locus where one’s homeland stands. In_Retrospect: Koto Bolofo is rooted in Southern Africa – the homeland from where Koto was forced to flee. […]
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28 February 2026 Fashion images matter. They act as evidence, as sites of material, socio-political andcultural knowledges. Paintings, and portraits in particular, precluded the words thatfill fashion textbooks as the site of culture, aesthetics and the material representationsof the day. Photographs now fill the textbook, their promise of truth eclipsing thespeed of the fashion sketch […]
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