Thebe Magugu SS24 - "EXOTICS"

“For those unfamiliar with the story of Sarah Baartman (Saartjie Baartman), she was a girl taken from her indigenous village in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) by two white British men in 1810, who took her to London and exploited her to the very end of her life. This season, I wanted to speak towards this tragedy, less it gets lost in history’s footnotes - which usually confuses victory with tragedy and erases the ‘exotic’ body”, says Thebe Magugu of his SS/24 collection.