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Keywords:
Ethnography/Civilization, Fashion, people & places


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
ARTE France

Music: Olivier GIRARDOT

Length:  1x26

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: International

Nationality: France

Year: 2009

Rights: all media, world

Support(s):  SD – Digital 16/9

Collection: DECODING DRESS CODES - series 2

DRESS IN MOZAMBIQUE

Director(s): Aldo LEE – Writer(s): Aldo LEE   Contact Contact   Download Print page

In Mozambique, the father of the revolution had the dream of a country where everyone would have been equal in the area of clothing. After years of political and dress dictatorship, the people of Mozambique have developed a very keen sense of fashion.
In this episode, we admire the « txuna babes » who copy the heroines of Brazilian telenovelas to attract the admiring glances of men. And we meet a man who once earned a living by bathing dogs, but who has become a pop star with a wardrobe full of designer suits.
We discover a thousand and one ways to wear and knot the capulana, a piece of cloth that is an essential part of clothing of the woman in Mozambique.
We meet an assimilado, a Mozambican who had to exchange his traditional dress for that of the colonists and we find the same assimilado , this time without his elegant suit, stark naked in the cave of a sorceress...
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