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Thebe Magugu · spring/summer 2024
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Thebe Magugu
- Narrative fashion
- Contemporary African design
Thebe Magugu turns research into clothes and publishing. His South African practice uses fashion to hold personal and collective histories in view while building a wardrobe for contemporary life.
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Thebe Magugu — Look 1
Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
Representative look from the Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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Thebe Magugu — Look 5
Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
Representative look from the Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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Thebe Magugu — Look 9
Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
Representative look from the Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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Thebe Magugu — Look 13
Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
Representative look from the Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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Thebe Magugu — Look 17
Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
Representative look from the Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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1 collections represented · 1 pieceSpring 2024 Ready-to-Wear
1 piece
About Thebe Magugu
Magugu won the LVMH Prize in 2019. Alongside his ready-to-wear collections, he publishes Faculty Press, an annual zine bringing together voices from South Africa, Africa and their diasporas. Publishing provides another setting for the cultural research that runs through the clothing.
The spring 2024 collection represented here addressed Saartje Baartman’s life and exploitation. Magugu worked with illustrator Phathu Membwilwi on imagery used in its prints, while high necklines and controlled shapes brought historical references into contemporary silhouettes. That collection is one specific project within a wider career; it should not stand in for all of his work or for South African fashion as a whole.