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Welcome back to CREATIVE MUSINGS! We're excited to have Rudo Nondo, Zimbabwe Country Coordinator of Fashion Revolution, join us for a visionary session. Today, Rudo will be painting a picture of what the future of fashion holds for Zimbabwe. She'll share her insights on what we, as individuals and companies, need to be mindful of as we navigate and contribute to this ever-evolving fashion system. Get ready for a thought-provoking discussion that will challenge perspectives and ignite innovative pathways for the future of Zimbabwean fashion!
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Dive into CREATIVE MUSINGS vodcast as we welcome guest speaker Danayi Madondo, the creative director and owner of Haus Of Stone, an independent slow fashion brand. Danayi will ignite our curiosity by sharing her personal journey of embracing sustainability and her experiences weaving sustainable practices into the fabric of her fashion label. This promises to be a captivating conversation about conscious design, responsible creation, and building a brand with purpose. In 2016, the incredible spark of Fashion Conversation ignited F_ART (Fashion meets Art), culminating in this first collaborative performance art fashion exhibition. My colleagues and I co-curated a unique experience merging multidisciplinary arts to explore sustainability, identity creation, and storytelling. Spanning Village Unhu and Amanzi Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, the event showcased a vibrant tapestry of talent.
"As young Zimbabwean designers, we often discuss sustainability from a "Eurocentric" perspective, a current global trend. However, I yearned to understand what true sustainability meant to me, an independent designer navigating socio-economic instability and restrictive government policies in Zimbabwe. This exploration led me to the realization that sustainability is relative, directly tied to the specific time and socioeconomic space we inhabit. It should reflect the capacity of individuals or groups to implement positive, sustainable practices within their own environments, practices that make sense within that specific context. Sustainability is not a fixed, one-dimensional concept. It shouldn't be an exclusive idea manipulated for the benefit of a few, governed by rigid rules that hold no relevance in every space and for every individual. I believe in the power of sharing ideas, that every voice matters, even if some resonate more than others. This is just a glimpse into the social commentary our performance art fashion exhibition, F_ART, sought to address." - Danayi Madondo (Circa Nov 30, 2016 - Zimbabwe Fashion Network) 
 A massive thank you to all the incredible creatives who made it possible:
__________ ETHOS "kudzidza hakuperi. learning never ends" - shona idiom A conversational & collaborative space for Zimbabwean creative’s. A 'free learning exchange' platform.🇿🇼 CREATIVE MUSINGS invites a diverse group of creative thinkers to share their thoughts on various topics. The aim? To inspire, motivate, and spark new ways of thinking and creating through the power of shared reflection. LETS GET STARTED! For our inaugural season of CREATIVE MUSINGS, we invited our visionary minds to explore four socially relevant topics, ranging from local concerns to global issues within their creative fields. These thought-provoking themes - Thinking Sustainability, Inclusion in the Arts, Religion & the Arts, and Post-COVID: Fashion Futures - served as springboards for their insightful reflections. Dive into some of their MUSINGS below, and we hope you'll find a spark of inspiration to carry you through the year ahead.  |
FASHION CONVERSATIONTo inspire, motivate, and stimulate new ways of thinking and creating through insightful reflections.🇿🇼 AuthorA Zimbabwean fashion designer, textile artist, and visual storyteller based in Harare, engages with multidisciplinary practices that embrace an immersive storytelling approach, seeking to archive & evolve cultural design traditions, ultimately expanding cultural discourse through her traditional experimental designs ArchivesCategories |
