Fashion & Jewellery Design/2008/33 min/Reel № 08.001
ByGavin Rajah, Amanda Laird Cherry, Stoned Cherrie
SA Fashion Panel: Gavin Rajah, Amanda Laird Cherry and Nkhensani Nkosi
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Gavin Rajah 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 2008, the conversation is grounded in Gavin'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.
Three top South African fashion designers talk about their work, their influences, the state of the local industry and the discipline’s function.
About the speaker
Gavin Rajah
Cape Town/South Africa
Gavin Rajah Atelier design and manufacture high-end luxury garments and accessories, specialising in ready-to-wear and couture.
Amanda Laird Cherry
Durban/South Africa
Amanda Laird Cherry is one of South Africa's most established fashion designers and one who has fused the development of her clothes with that of the country.
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