Grace Wales Bonner will head the Department for Fashion Design
The British designer, who was born in London in 1992, has for years been a leading force in the field of trend-setting, theory-based and transdisciplinary fashion design. She started her own label for menswear in 2014/2015 and already won renowned fashion awards with the presentation of her first collection.
Her work explores representations of black male sexuality and identity. Bonner subsequently expanded her collection to include women’s fashion. The British designer and artist received numerous awards, most recently from the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. In 2019, she presented her first institutional exhibition “A Time for New Dreams” in London’s Serpentine Galleries. Wales Bonner has been intensively engaged in theory, music composition, literature and history and combines European traditions with Afro-Atlantic perspectives in her works. “I’m delighted to be joining the Angewandte as head of the Fashion Design Department and I hope to bring a unique cultural perspective to the course and the university”, says Grace Wales Bonner.
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