Thebe Magugu and Pierpaolo Piccioli take each other's creations and make them their own. The designs fuse history and heritage and create a conversation through fashion.
When South Africa’s fashion wunderkind Thebe Magugu first opened the mystery crate from Rome containing Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino haute couture garment, he recognized it at once as the dress that Tracee Ellis Ross wore to grace the 2018 Emmy Awards.was the garment chosen by Piccioli that Magugu would be tasked with reimagining as the second chapter of’s dress-swap initiative : two designers working their individual alchemy to transform a fellow creator’s work.
This opportunity to examine an haute couture garment up close also helped him to understand and appreciate for the first time “the level of work and craftsmanship that has gone into this—it really is a work of art.” Meanwhile, in Rome, Piccioli and his team unpacked Magugu’s almond-green pantsuit. “I saw the color and the pattern of the fabric,” Piccioli recalls, “but the thing that impacted me the most was this letter that Thebe sent me. He said something that was very moving: that he is from the Sotho [ethnic group] and that ‘blankets are a very big part of our culture.
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