Asa Salman Designs ― i-vaskoti Apron
i-vaskoti is an isiXhosa genderqueer apron with traditional umbaco (decoration). This elegant, black textile apron is decorated with sewn-in white strips and buttons. This particular design was inspired by a dream that HOMEplxce Founder, Lakhiyia, had and the designer meticulously made it manifest.
Ready to manifest yours?
i-vaskoti is an isiXhosa genderqueer apron with traditional umbaco (decoration). This elegant, black textile apron is decorated with sewn-in white strips and buttons. This particular design was inspired by a dream that HOMEplxce Founder, Lakhiyia, had and the designer meticulously made it manifest.
Ready to manifest yours?
i-vaskoti is an isiXhosa genderqueer apron with traditional umbaco (decoration). This elegant, black textile apron is decorated with sewn-in white strips and buttons. This particular design was inspired by a dream that HOMEplxce Founder, Lakhiyia, had and the designer meticulously made it manifest.
Ready to manifest yours?
Intentional Adornment
Crown yourself with energetic hospitality for livez we consent to living.
HOMEplxce™, which translates to iKhaya in isiXhosa, calls us forth to our ancestral homesteads. Our gardens. The spaces we cultivate and craft into our own with rituals, experiences, and dreaming. The places that hold our vulnerability. Our joy. What does it mean to come home to you? Drawing from bell hooks' articulation of "homeplace" as "a site of resistance," a place "where we can recover ourselves." Our use of the "x" instead of "a" in HOMEplxce, illuminates the various ways Black queer peoples have cultivated HOMEplxces that "subvert" the structural world that seeks their undoing. We know that HOME is not always a building, or made up of biological family members. We know that coming HOME to oneself is the work of continual unconditional love.
Welcome HOME, Sib!
Co-imagine. Co-heal. Co-create.
What are you conjuring?
Limited Edition Collaborations ― Keeping in step with the HOMEplxce App as the Blxck Queer Virtual Pop-Up, we enjoy collaborating with various fashion designers from across the globe. If you have a vision or wish to co-create a new adornment offering with us, please reach out. We look forward to hearing from you! This Spring, we are featuring designs crafted in partnership with Asa Salman Designs, which is based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Gratitude for being the first collaboration of 2022!
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