Billie Zangewa
A South African-based artist born in Malawi, Billie Zangewa celebrates the amalgamation of gender, identity, and race in a socio-economic context through raw silk assemblages.
Billie Zangewa
Transposing her 2020 oeuvre, The Swimming Lesson, Zangewa’s Artycapucines bag depicts her son Mika on the edge of a glistening pool, adorned with handstitched beads and metallic thread to create a sparkling reflection, and three Monogram penguin charms in an ode to their enduring connection.
In a fusion of art and fashion, Zangewa’s original bronze silk patchwork was scanned and printed in high definition onto soft leather, capturing its natural creases, and attached to the Capucines with deliberately uneven stitching. A recurrent theme of her piece, gold detailing outlines the pool edge and continues along the top of the bag, to the metallic LV signature. “I have a love of texture and tactility so working with fabric was almost inevitable.” – Billie Zangewa