Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Sindiso Khumalo 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 United Kingdom in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Sindiso'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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The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections.