Wax fabric is widely seen across West Africa today ... it was later reclaimed and popularized by various African nations, becoming a symbol of identity and even protest. However, its history ...

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times/Redux In her book, Karkaria tells the story of Jacobson and Nair’s meeting — Nair rattling off the unique selling points of the fabric, which was woven using ...

(CNN) — On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the ...