Fashion Cultures and Histories – Research Seminar: Fashion & Migration/s: Fashion on the move - material and creative circulations

Fashion & Migration/s: Fashion on the move – material and creative circulations

Mode & Migration/s : La Mode en mouvement – circulations matérielles et créatives

About the session: 

Fashion & Migration/s: Fashion on the move – material and creative circulations

This session explores the circulations, hybridization, and re-appropriations of fashion histories and heritages, materials and techniques through the work of two multidisciplinary designers operating across fashion, textiles, and crafts. Born in Ireland to Nigerian parents, Timisola Shasanya meshes menswear with textile experimentation, sculpture and photography, to ask where and what is home through the lens of fashion. Crossing handweaving, basketry, design, and research, Rudy Agapé seeks to map the personal, colonial and cultural genealogies of madras textiles from India to the French Caribbean, to reclaim and revitalize madras heritage from Guadeloupe. In migration movements, textiles, processes and objects are challenged and activated to form new creative narratives. 

Fashion & Migration/s is anchored in material culture, in the affective quality of objects inviting us to visualize, materialize and investigate the lives of people on the move. In this vein, we will launch Belongings: Objects of Migrations (Effets personnels : objets en migration) – a gallery of migratory objects that talk of global human and material movements and memories.

Speakers:

Timisola Shasanya

Title: 

The Art of Reinterpretation: Exploring African Diasporic Styles of Textile Memory.

How does migration transform the local and global contexts of artmaking within the African diaspora

About the speaker: 

Timisola Shasanya is a multidisciplinary designer working across fashion, textiles, sculpture, and photography. Her practice explores race, identity, and the Black diaspora, using clothing as a site of memory and lived experience. Grounded in the relationship between textiles and cutting, her work sits between bespoke menswear traditions and Nigerian textile practices. Through material experimentation, spiritual dyeing processes, and objects rooted in personal and diasporic memory, she examines how migration reshapes local and global contexts of artmaking. Born in Ireland to Nigerian parents, she has lived between London, Nigeria, and rural Kent, and is currently based in Paris. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins BA Menswear and is completing a Master’s at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM).

Rudy Agapé

Title:

"@agape_paage: Reinterpretating Creole costume, the journeys of madras and basketry, between handloom and craftsmanship"

@agape_paage, une réécriture du costume créole, des voyages du madras et de la vannerie, entre métier à tisser et métier d'art

About the speaker: 

Rudy Agapé graduated from l’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM). He has notably worked for LVMH and Kering before launching his own brand@agape_paage. His practice-based research explores madras textiles in Guadeloupe and their origins. He blends plant fibers with textiles and develops a repertoire of plaid patterns for a contemporary wardrobe.

Rudy Agapé est diplômé de l’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM). Il a travaillé notamment pour LVMH et Kering avant de lancer sa propre griffe @agape_paage. Il mène une démarche de création et recherche autour du tissu madras de Guadeloupe et de ses origines. Il associe fibres végétales et textiles et développe un répertoire de motifs à carreaux pour un vestiaire contemporain. 

AND 

Featuring the launch of the virtual gallery: Belongings: Objects of Migrations (Effets personnels : objets en migration– with Tsveta Tsvetanova, Sachi Hauser, Nicole Roberts, students from the AUP course “Decolonizing Fashion, Design and Cultures” with Magali An Berthon.