Timisola Shasanya is a multi disciplinary designer whose practice engages with dialogue and relationships between race, class, film, and photography. The premise of her work surrounds itself around textiles and cutting techniques that intersects the principles of bespoke menswear and fluidity of traditional Nigerian textile. She works with material through spiritual and traditional practice, particularly with dyeing processes, and experimenting with unorthodox materials such as African brooms from her childhood, broken bamboo that she remembers from her time on her dad’s farm back in Nigeria and the treatment of leather and waxed materials. She experiments with distortion and wearability to create pieces that challenge the comfortability of menswear through the use of fabrication. By working with sculpture, photography, sound, and film to influence her designs, Timisola has allowed herself to express her tho.ughts on critical race issues and the dynamisms of being an African migrant sharing her black experience. Timisola aims to bridge a gap between these fields in order to create authentic stories told through her perspective.
Born in Ireland to Nigerian parents, Shasanya has lived in London and Nigeria as well as a period of her youth in rural Kent. She is currently based in Paris. Her multi-cultural background and exposure to diverse social and political structures forms the backbone of Timisola’s research and practice. She investigates the relationships between topics that engages her the most, and uses her skills to depict how social behaviour and the human experience can be altered through her design practice. The designer has been supported by Sarabande, the Alexander McQueen foundation and the British Fashion Council during her Bachelor Degree at Central Saint Martins where she graduated with a First class Honours in Menswear. She is now studying her masters in Paris at Institut Français de la Mode.
Timisola currently works on a project-by-project basis. Recent projects include: her BA graduate collection ‘Runners’ — a project rooted in her personal migration narrative and an exploration of how movement shapes identity and how memory is preserved through material — particularly looking at the dynamisms of growing up continentally, displacing context: taking the textures, weights, and emotional resonances of one place and reimagining them in another; and ‘Black Boy’s Cry’ — a project that investigates modern day slavery and child labour in Lagos, Nigeria, inspired by the trauma and long terms affects of young children working in abusive homes where they are physically, mentally and emotionally abused. As well as more personal projects about her experiences as a black individual from London raised in an upper class environment in rural Kent during her formative years “The Orchard and Me”
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