'Nigeria and Austria linked through lace'

06:26 Aug 18, 2021
'(23 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST music on catwalks not cleared for use. please replace with your own clearable music AP Television Vienna, 21st October 2010 1. Pan exterior Museum for Social Anthropology lightshow 2. Mid exterior entrance Museum for Social Anthropology 3. Zoom out exterior detail of the front of the museum to entrance 4. Close poster \"African Lace\" 5. Wide poster \"African Lace\" 6. Detail poster \"African Lace\" 7. Various fashion show 8. Mid audience applauding 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Folake Folarin-Coker, Nigerian Designer: \"This fabric, the Austrian lace, is something that was only used for traditional clothing before. Me along with the rest of the designers that are shown here tonight are hoping to champion this new crusade to make this fabric more for the younger generation, for it to appeal to the younger generation.\" 10. Various fashion show 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Osodi Richard, Nigerian Designer:  \"We are always very happy, so the more drama, the better, but for the Europeans it\'s not always like that. they are very careful, they are very particular about not being too overly dressed. We don\'t care, we just want to make a statement. Africans like to make a statement and we make sure that it happens.\" 12. Various fashion show 13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Barbara Plankensteiner, Curator: \"I would wear everything, as you see I\'m wearing lace already.\" 14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Helma Cuny-Pierr, Visitor: \"There were some very exciting things to see, especially the pure European things, but I\'m sorry that there was not more African influence to feel.\" 15. SOUNDBITE: (German) Annick Stockert, Visitor: \"Because for us there is a lot of European influence, I\'m sure there is a market for this.\" 16. Wide of exhibition, people looking at examples of embroidered fabrics 17. Pan examples of embroidered fabrics 18. Zoom out detail to one of the examples of embroidered fabrics 19. Wide people looking in a catalogue for embroidered fabrics 20. Mid catalogue for embroidered fabrics 21. Close catalogue of fabrics 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Markus Riedmann, Head, Vorarberg Embroidery Makers: \"The history of the embroidery business, the connection to Nigeria, was situated about 50 years back. A businessman from Lustenau was on his way back from a trip from Asia, went through South Africa and arrived finally in Lagos for a hold, then he recognised that all the ladies in Nigeria were wearing very colourful dresses, dresses that had been embroidered by hand at that time - to brighten up. then he went home and back in his office he had to good idea to say \'ok we don\'t we try it?\'\" 23. Wide exhibition 24. Various clothes made of African lace 25. SOUNDBITE: (German) Barbara Plankensteiner, Curator: \"During the 1970s it was the main influence of Nigerian fashion, this was the time of the oil boom, when the people had a lot of money, and it has not changed today, it\'s still \'the\' Nigerian cloth.\" 26. Various posters showing musicians wearing lace 27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Osodi Richard, Nigerian Designer:  \"It\'s (kisses his hand) you understand. You feel it, you see it, you want to touch it, you want to put your head on it. you just can\'t stop touching it and feeling it.\" 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Folake Folarin-Coker, Nigerian Designer: \"You say Austrian lace, Swiss lace it means ohhh - you\'re on top of the ladder. that\'s the speciality of the Austrian lace.\" 29. Finale of fashion show, models and designers on the catwalk LEAD IN: It\'s an African fashion hit with an Alpine touch. STORYLINE:  Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c6e17f174be4ab11009bae3f85d30099' 

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