{"id":2232,"date":"2011-08-02T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=2232"},"modified":"2011-08-02T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:46:18","slug":"the-new-blogazine-dishing-out-everything-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/the-new-blogazine-dishing-out-everything-african\/","title":{"rendered":"The New &#8220;Blogazine&#8221; Dishing Out Everything African"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adire-before-content\" id=\"adire-3086608946\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/amp_adiree_mag_top\">\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/heritage-1960.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2233 lazyload\" title=\"heritage-1960\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/heritage-1960-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new &#8220;blogazine&#8221; and African related e-commerce site has hit the world wide web, and it looks like it is off to a very promising start.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/heritage1960.com\/\">Heritage1960<\/a>, founded by Enyinne Owunwanne, calls itself a &#8220;one stop shop for global African fashion and lifestyle brands.&#8221;\u00a0 It got its name from the year 1960 in which 17 African nations gained their independence.\u00a0 Owunwanne says, \u201cI\u2019m passionate about viewing Africa from a global perspective.\u00a0  Heritage1960 is a celebration of freedom, individuality and style.\u00a0 Everything and everyone on Heritage1960 is connected to Africa in  some way.\u00a0 This includes African and diaspora designers; brands that  manufacture on the continent; those that have a reputable philanthropic  arm giving back to Africa and designers who are inspired by Africa, as  well as local market finds. I want to convey the diversity and  far-reaching influence of African fashion and get away from the expected  wax prints and tribal references because it\u2019s so much more than that.\u201d\u00a0 Born in the US to Nigerian parents, and growing up in Kuwait, Owunwanne has traveled and studied in cities all over the world and will surely bring a global perspective to the site.\u00a0 Looking around I got a feel for Heritage1960 and I am already liking what I am seeing, especially since they already had a nice<a href=\"http:\/\/heritage1960.com\/?p=2311\"> article on AFWNY<\/a>!\u00a0 We will be keeping an eye out while this site develops and shows us its full potential.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Arise Magazine<\/p>\n<div class=\"adire-after-content\" id=\"adire-2408799277\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/amp_adiree_mag_bott\">\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new &#8220;blogazine&#8221; and African related e-commerce site has hit the world wide web, and it looks like it is off to a very promising start.\u00a0 Heritage1960, founded by Enyinne Owunwanne, calls itself a &#8220;one stop shop for global African fashion and lifestyle brands.&#8221;\u00a0 It got its name from the year 1960 in which 17&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,171,170,172],"tags":[180,136,189,624,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}