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Exploring my love for textiles and texture through @ma.gadula . This is a work-in-progress but I’d love to get a few (read 2 or 3 maaxx ) of these done for yall ahead of the pop up @studio_________402

You’re still the one that I adore 🥰 Makeup: @celestialbyuk @mangospiice

Beaded top styled by @themetastylist 🫶🏽 @ma.gadula DOP: @riversideblues MUA: @tinafischbach_makeupartist 1st Assist: @ad.ports 2nd Assist: @lensoflouis

I’ve got a lot of exciting new stuff coming up so I thought I’d run this top back: For a while I had been searching for my “thing” in fashion. I approached a number of ladies who do beadwork to commission this top - and one of them, Sis Thenjiwe, told me to make it myself. Long story short: she taught me, I made it, and it sent me into a DEEP rabbit hole of craft communities, handwork and textiles. @ma.gadula Model: @babs_xm

MAGADULA is an artisanal fashion studio where craft is researched and reimagined through contemporary fashion @aphi.gx - designer + creative director @simba.raws - photographer @Wesleytakaedza - videographer @nal_sowazzz - editor + grader @babs_xm - production @mangospice - hair @denishaharidas - makeup @lulu_ndlovu - assistant @Thulani_konstabula - model

MAGADULA @aphi.gx - designer + creative director @simba.raws - photographer @Wesleytakaedza - videographer @nal_sowazzz - editor + grader @babs_xm - production @mangospice - hair @denishaharidas - makeup @lulu_ndlovu - assistant @Thulani_konstabula - model

Last year, @aphi.gx participated in a heritage research cohort by @a42.art to research and archive traditional Venda craft techniques. This sparked an interest in Animism: the belief that places, objects, and creatures all possess a spiritual essence. It explored how the practice of Venda woodcarving bestows mystical powers on figurines. In giving life through craft, every chip carries a meditative intention to uncover and invoke. Through a simple bead-weaving technique, a wooden, beaded wearable art piece was created. It poses the questions: Who do we become when our clothes possess us? And should greater care be given to the maker’s intention? @aphi.gx - designer + creative director @simba.raws - photographer @Wesleytakaedza - videographer @nal_sowazzz - editor + grader @babs_xm - production @mangospice - hair @denishaharidas - makeup @lulu_ndlovu - assistant @Thulani_konstabula - model

MAGADULA @aphi.gx - designer + creative director @simba.raws - director @Wesleytakaedza - videographer @nal_sowazzz - editor + grader @babs_xm - production @mangospice - hair @denishaharidas - makeup @lulu_ndlovu - assistant @Thulani_konstabula - model

@wav.festival ?? We had a ball!!!

Creative Conservation is an approach to sustaining heritage through creativity. Beyond archiving in books or museums, we engage artists, designers, and makers in reanimating traditions, working with ancestral skills, materials, and practices to generate new meaning and new work. Through cycles of remembering and making, we build living archives that are at once historical and contemporary, communal and personal, embodied and digital.

The moment we've all been waiting for! Big Queen on Small Street is live on the stage now! In special appreciation of the team, Mama knows A Queen is nothing without her crew. In Jozi, community is EVERYTHING: friends hyping each other, vibing together, and standing strong. That's the heart of Meji Meji: ubuntu. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. I am because we are. Let's keep shining, keep uplifting, keep building— side by side, kasi to kasi, continent to continent. As a fam, Let’s kick back and Catch a glimpse of all the matters, gossip and fashion takes on Small Street and remember, as Sinalo says, Even if the street you walk on is small or your path feels narrow, you need to dream big in your confidence and who you are and where you go. Director & Head Photographer: @_christiandiordior_ Writer: @thereal_rato Creative Directors: @tolucoye , @duduzamchunu & @kemiolukanni Executive Producer: @dumisanimvumvu Producer: @hlengsinthemorning DP: @visualsbydaddyque Photographer: @simba.raws Focus Puller: @jaytshabalala_ 2nd AC: @justjackienochan Gaffer: @downtownthabz Sound Technician: @rich_mohlari Stylist: @phutistyles Hair Stylist: @mangospiice MUA: @awodwamambi / @awodwamambimua Cast: Big Queens @bulelanigram @jinxcura @phi.shyyy @girlwithabuttrflytattoo  @phutistyles Pastor: Vusi Mokoena @_imraanrahim @tsuckidaddy @thandonombida @lethabotheboyslive Post Production Offline Editor: @_christiandiordior_ Online Editor: @lumeoedits Colourist: @nic_apostoli Sound Design/Final Mix: @itskenjay__ /@syncwavstudio BTS: @xoxo.lethabo Audio Company: Kalu Media Sound Engineer: @sean_makes_noise Music @mfanatouchlinee & @swervox3 @lagospanic Titles Product Design: @snalo_ Graphics Titles: @bradleynaicker Flyer: @shorn.mhlontlo

Worlds continue to collide in the new era as Nigerian roots holding hands with South African pride. Mama linked up with the powerhouse @snalo_ to bring her colours and boldness onto our Meji-Meji canvas: introducing the ‘Big Queen on Small Street’ baby tee. This one is not just merch - Mama wants to stamp her love for SA with these tees. Limited drop, so when they’re gone, haai shem, they’re gone chomi. 📸: @_christiandiordior_