Fashion & Jewellery Design/2013/9 min/Reel № 13.001
ByLeanie van der Vyver
Leanie van der Vyver on testing the line between sexy and grotesque
The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013
A close reading, kept within reach.
Leanie van der Vyver 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 2013, the conversation is grounded in Leanie'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.
What lies beyond the projection of perfection? How far can we push notions of beauty, before it becomes grotesque? Leanie van der Vyver asks these questions.
About the speaker
Leanie van der Vyver
Cape Town/South Africa
Leanie van der Vyver's designs are bold and provocative. Her Scary Beautiful shoes went viral, with some four million views on Vimeo.
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