SALES DEPEND ON AFRICAN TASTES
At La Goutte d'Or
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The term "wax" comes from wax used to make Indonesian batik
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The population rejected Dutch industrial copies, but soldiers from what is now Ghana liked them and brought them home (toward 1900).
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The six-foot rectangle with no right or wrong side ties around the waist or is made into an outfit
At the Cartier Fondation
At the Eastern Station and at the place de l'Italie mall (in the 13th)
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They can send a message
"Stay away from my man!"
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Wax appears in an art gallery photo...
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By Anton F / Galerie d'Europe, 55 rue de Seine, 6th |
In Saint-Germain des Près, known for its galleries of contemporary art
...and at the Louvre
Worn throughout sub-Saharan Africa and almost nowhere else,
the print is inseparable from it.
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