Re-worked Vintage.

Appreciating quality is one thing vintage research teaches and for this we thought of altering these suits to fill a design need we have when we start designing our own clothes ... So we had to change the sleeves and work out some styling details. Hope this is heading somewhere. Thank you to Trevor Stuurman for the lovely photography. 

Photography by Trevor Stuurman. 

One Sunday Afternoon.

Born in the 60s. South Africa. The Sartists x Boys of Soweto.

Inspiration: GQ 1931.

Carrying the Cross.

The Township.

"I can identify with it. It does not strike me as 'peculiar'. Yet, I still try to avoid being trapped in its hypnotic embrace, which seems to mock my carefully cultivated indifference and self confidence. I feel ambivalent about my ambivalence, embarrassed at my embarrassment." - Santu Mofokeng.

Originally this quote by Santu Mofokeng was directed to townships and people that live in them but rather on people of a certain faith.

I on the other hand found an understanding that I could apply to townships. Many of us that live or have family that still live in the poorest areas of townships are ashamed, embarrassed by it, so we hide it.

We hide it in appearance.

Street Etiquette x Brooklyn Circus and us, the Sartists.

Home.

In a folder titled Appropriated Spaces, Santu Mofokeng once wrote that the notion of 'home' is a fiction we create out of a need to belong, that home is a place where some people have never been to and a place where some people will never arrive at. 

He wrote that home is an appropriated space, and that it does not exist objectively in reality. The week we spent with Art Comes First, Street Etiquette and Ouigi Theodore of Brooklyn circus taught us a lot, and to an extent re-iterated what Mr Santu Mofokeng said about home.

On that saturday of StrCrd, the tennis look saturday we got home happy and the first thing my father said to us was "you guys look like you come from heaven", I don't know what he mean't by that but the understanding we got was, I guess what Santu Mofokeng says, that home(heaven) is a place you don't go or arrive at but rather a place you create.

I don't know.....oh well.

Inspiration. Marcus Garvey.

A people without a knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots - Marcus Garvey.

Travel Etiquette. South Africa.

Thank you to everyone that made Travel Etiquette possibe, from the organizers of StrCrd to InstantGrass. Blessing spending a couple of days with Art Comes First, Ouigi Theodore, Street Etiquette,Bob the Stylist, Grace Ladoja, Kenji Summers, The Smarties and I See A Different You.

Too bad I couldn't get my hands on pictures of everyone, soon though.Will try share more knowledge on details with the next coming posts.

This is love.

Images taken from Street Etiquette and Paul Ward.
www.streetetiquette.com