African Fashion Research Institute
Fashioning brave new worlds – Africa at the International Fashion Showcase 2019 This digital VR fashion exhibition, presented by AFRI, highlights the work of three emerging African designers who were featured at the International Fashion Showcase, held in London’s Somerset House in February 2019. The immersive virtual exhibition of the International Fashion Showcase was created […]
21 YEARS: Making Histories with South African Fashion Week The concept of 21 YEARS draws in a contemporary millennial attitude of owning and narrating stories located in personal experiences and reflecting individual and unique histories. 21 YEARS offers an approach to reclaiming absent African fashion histories and writing into the record neglected narratives through a series of […]
{Re} Institute {Re} Institute is a multi-disciplinary intervention informed by ideas around the clothed and unclothed body as a tool of resistance. This definition has been further expanded and performed through speculative methods of design by reimagining the traditional pinstriped suit through stylistic changes. The construction of the classic three-piece suit has been altered through […]