It is rare to peer behind the creative veil and it into the very heart of the design practice. To begin to weave together the varying threads of a designer’s tapestry - both literal and figurative - and reveal their process, brings up queries of the studio, the story - the materiality, inspiration and how could this even begin to be distilled and conveyed to a community? Such an interrogation is a task so profoundly archival, while being a contemporary elevation of the exhibition format as wholly and holistically suited to sartorial expression in fashion design.

 Provenance is precisely this; a warm, heartfelt welcome by Lukhanyo Mdingi into the intimate nexus upon which his eponymous label has been built since 2015. 

This series tells the story of the label’s expedition; and delves deep into the source material of the textural, collaborative and visionary aspects that comprise the Lukhanyo Mdingi cosmology. The archival visuals and journals become a letter written physically and energetically by those part of the LM world, creating a dialogue that makes use of multi-dimensional mediums across continents and practices: garment design being the eventual distillation of this all. Design is the methodology; connection is the vision.