The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reveals its Spring 2024 exhibition titled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”, which features a look from our AW23 Folklorics collection. The print depicts a shipwreck in progress, which is mimicked in the exhibition space through a video by SHOWstudio depicting a raging sea.
When asked about the ensemble, Thebe Magugu says, “The shipwreck print allegorically speaks of sirens believed to have crashed ships just off the Cape coast and, as a child, we were warned about going too deep into the local river, fearing ‘Mongwa Wa Letsa’ (Someone of the Lake). In hindsight, one learns to truly be respectful of water; the serenity it can bring, the power it can amass, and all the natural and supernatural things that exist in it. It can kill and heal”.
Main Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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