29-year-old artist Tschabalala Self explains why she took her high-fashion break.
If you're wondering how Self, who was born and raised in Harlem, managed to inject herinto an object as condensed as a designer handbag, well, she didn't—at least not explicitly. "I'm black and I'm female, and my work is about being a black female that navigates the world. But for people to then think that because of that, I'm not allowed to participate in certain opportunities, is counterintuitive to the whole purpose of why I’m making this kind of work," she said.
The black figures that typically populate Self's signature massive, fabric-adorned paintings have long invited comparisons to. But recreating them in this context, Self decided, wouldn't "make any sense." In the end, that only added to her enthusiasm for working with Vuitton: "It was a really, really cool exercise to push myself to do something a little bit different," she said of her approach to the collaboration as a "formal exercise" instead.
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