Commercially printed kente upholsters the seat and knee rest of this computer chair, which was purchased by Crenshaw High School School student Danielle E. Smith for the Wrapped in Pride Exhibition. Kente is a dead statement unless people are wearing real kente. The real kente is good, but when they started making imitations, it just killed it. They see it more as a fashion than as a cultural and artistic preserve. It is not looked at as an artistic masterpiece.
Imitations are all over.
It will get to the point where kente will lose traditional and cultural character. People who are using a kente book bag will not respect it anymore ten years from now. A lot of people are using imitation kente as throws on their couches, or to sleep in, or as handkerchiefs or book bags. We think these are not appropriate uses for kente because kente is sacred. Kente is spiritual.