Meet the Designer

Khalalelo

Sithole

Art & Design

“A passionate fashion and textile designer engaging in impactful print and pattern concepts. Her influences derive from modern trends and sociocultural themes through the use of dynamic compositions of color, symbolic patterns and storytelling.”

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Otherness has always been a part of my designing career. My studies in Canada inspired me to design based on self-realization and the deeper hidden Black Canadian narratives that are excluded from normative systems. My process involves abstracted symbolic expression along with quilting which is traditionally both a Canadian and African craft.Khalalelo has been working as a Fashion Designer in Montreal while freelancing her print designs to the contemporary fashion and interior market in Canada, Australia and US.
OCAD U - Faculty of Design
Material Art & Design
Major Completed, 2020
College Lasalle
Fashion Design
Major Completed, 2014
RMIT University
BA Textile Design
Major Transferred, 2018

Creative Arts Fashion Design Textile & Surface Design Knitwear

2020, Brain Exhibition | Rotman Research Institute Baycrest
Toronto
2019, Campaign for Wool | "New Voices in Wool"
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto
2019, The Doll Project - Project Sunshine Canada
Textile Museum of Toronto
2017, Immersion Textile Showcase - RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
2020, The Craft Ontario Community Award
MAAD Program Awards
2020, The Dora Wechsler Memorial Award
MAAD Program Awards
2019, Ada Slaight Scholorship
OCAD University
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