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Fashion designer and aesthetic style powerhouse Duro Olowu transcultural vision to the new decade of inclusiveness

CDLP | Updated: 2020-02-29 12:30
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Barbara Crane, People of the North Portal, 2018.[PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO]

Olowu's curatorial prowess was much in evidence at London's Camden Arts Centre in 2016 for Making and Unmaking, a group show in which he assembled artists as diverse as Isaac Julien, Grace Wales Bonner and Irving Penn to examine the notion of "art-making"-and in particular, the difficulties for black artists.

That keen awareness has boosted the popularity of his Instagram account, which functions like a digital mood board or sketchbook of anyone and everyone in the black visual culture of art, music and performance, thereby bringing them greater attention and a wider audience in Olowu's bid to reconsider how we perceive notions of race and beauty.

If 2020 is to be the decade of cultural immersion, then Olowu's American venture is as transcultural as aesthetics gets.

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