Adam Levin on South African fashion

Fashion & Jewellery Design/2006/42 min/Reel № 06.001

ByAdam Levin

Adam Levin on South African fashion

Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Adam Levin takes fashion & jewellery design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Adam's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Fashion is an intimate social and political expression of who we are as a people. Adam Levin talks about this notion.

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Adam Levin

Johannesburg/South Africa

Adam Levin is an award-winning South African author and journalist.