Tukki Project: Inclusivity and Fashion with Guest Artist Badara Ndiaye
Diversity and inclusivity are the key concepts of the project developed by Sophomore students in the spring of their first year of specialization in fashion design. The project aims at exploring non-Western vernacular forms of cultural expression and at establishing a new kind of reciprocal dialogue with the visual, material and sensorial memories of the students themselves.
This year, students shared the personal perceptions and memories of their nomadic identity in exile with those of a Paris-based Senegalese-American artist, Badara Ndiaye, who experienced cultural displacement and translated it subjectively with various media (Tukki means displacement and covers the idea of migratory movements in Wolof, the most spoken language in Senegal).
The first step of the project focused on the creation of prints and color palettes inspired by Badara’s memories of his childhood and youth in Senegal.
Image 1: Araz Yaghoub Nakhjavan Tapeh, BFA Fashion Design Sophomore
Image 2: Patricia Sanchez-Lozano Garcia-Salmones, BFA Fashion Design Sophomore
Image 3: Virginia Nasi, BFA Fashion Design Sophomore