Fashion & Jewellery Design/2011/8 min/Reel № 11.001
ByLaduma Ngxokolo
Laduma Ngxokolo on his Xhosa fashion line
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Laduma Ngxokolo 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 2011, the conversation is grounded in Laduma'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.
Laduma Ngxokolo incorporates traditional Xhosa beadwork designs into his range of wool and mohair garments for men.
About the speaker
Laduma Ngxokolo
Johannesburg/South Africa
Laduma Ngxokolo is a South African textile and knitwear designer, best known for his men's knitwear range inspired by traditional Xhosa beadwork.
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