>> a new exhibit at the field museum is celebrating Africa's layered history of fashion and uses photography.

Video fabrics and more to showcase the work of artists from the start of the liberation period of the Mid 20th century.

Up until today, the exhibit called Africa fashion was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and features creations from 22 African countries.

>> And the continent itself is alive and thriving in beautiful that the stairs types are not president.

You walk through the spacing.

You're feeling pride in your culture.

If you're part of that culture, if you're not, you're you're just looking at beautiful things and looking at a culture of people that have created beautiful things and not in a past tense way that there's still creating beautiful things.

So I love that feeling as you walk through the space that that it's alive and thriving.

Africa is ons ahead of the United States it comes to fashion the silhouettes, the materials that are used very different than what you find.

This were walking through a store Chicago, downtown Chicago.

When you come, CFA confession us to see an amazing factions, intensive outfits.

>> What you a lot of photography because the show is about self representation as well as cell function in.

So if you think about the stooge April traits that you find this one full black and white Stu ship will chase by the African FA took his lights on.

They saw Ray.

So I think that this it at that session can on the one hand, say something about yourself and the political so allow you to it.

She societies and this will is.

So that's not a suspect.

But then there's a whole host of The comes on in the globe left.

And I asked but just relished the joy and the sensation of wearing one to 4 plates.

Come back to the title the show because it's Africa, fashion for recent south, the removal of the end with the streets, strategic refusal to put the N on on to Africa.

It's because we want it to keep.

open and it possible.

We want to mock the fact that unit, the fashions, our state, this is the continent itself.

And we recognize we could do the show like this, even though it's a survey show to give ordinance Ezekiel in It's true.

The show we hope tell a story that is about agency about a funded and it's about unbound to creativity.

And I see is the magnificence of African creativity.

And so within that, we want to tell a story that gets the kind of limits of the climate and the