{"id":276842,"date":"2019-05-22T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiamh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNS8yMi8yMDE5L3Nwb3RsaWdodC16YWFmLWZhc2hpb24tcGhvdG9zLXNob3QtaW4tYWZhci1ldGhpb3BpYS1hdC1zbWl0aHNvbmlhbi1pbi1kYy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:34","slug":"zaaf-showed-afar-leather-fashion-photos-at-the-smithsonians-african-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276842","title":{"rendered":"ZAAF showed Afar leather fashion photos at the Smithsonian\u2019s African art museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May\u2013July 2019 Tadias reported that Ethiopian-American brand ZAAF, founded by Abai Schulze, presented fashion photographs shot in Ethiopia\u2019s Afar\/Danakil landscape at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ZAAF showed Afar leather fashion photos at the Smithsonian\u2019s African art museum\" \/>\n<p>ZAAF makes premium leather goods designed with Ethiopian craft links, and the Smithsonian show paired stills with documentary material to place Ethiopian fashion inside a major U.S. museum rather than only diaspora pop-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Culture coverage like this matters because it shows Ethiopian makers claiming high-end space abroad while factories at home still fought over wages and FX.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and arts archive, the ZAAF Smithsonian file dates a diaspora brand moment that tied Afar imagery to Washington audiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/05\/22\/2019\/spotlight-zaaf-fashion-photos-shot-in-afar-ethiopia-at-smithsonian-in-dc\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotlight: ZAAF Fashion Photos Shot in Afar, Ethiopia at Smithsonian in DC at Tadias Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineZAAF, which is founded by Ethiopian-American entrepreneur Abai Schulze (center), produces a brand of premium leather products that a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a1c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754865,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276842\/revisions\/754865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}