Queer South African Artists Telling a Story Through Colour - QWEAR FASHION MAG

South Africa and especially Johannesburg is known internationally for the amazing street art, style and genre pushing artists. There is a move towards embracing colour within style and daily life in the culture of Joburg’s queer scene and we at Pattern Nation met up with some of the cities up and coming queer music and performance artists: Kieron Jina aka Afrohomo, Jesse Khoi aka Khoiboi, and Thoba Ndlovu. Pattern Nation is a creative platform and fashion house that celebrates colour and pattern, it is ran by interacial couple Cydney Eva (Vancouver Canada) and Costa Besta (Durban South Africa) and is currently based in Cape Town South Africa. We at Pattern Nation had the pleasure of collaborating with these dynamic and colourful artists while visiting Johannesburg in 2019. We partnered with artists and dancers Kieron Jina and Jesse Khoi to shoot in and around the amazing art installations at Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival 2019 at Constitution Hill. Styling PatternNation one of a kind ungendered clothing into 3 different looks we explored, played and created together. The next day we met with musician Thoba Ndluvo in the trendy arts district of Maboneng to shoot them in Pattern Nation clothing in front of murals and art installations in the area. Between the two shoots we looked at how colour is used in pop up installations at festivals and the more permanent public art around the city. We wanted to know more from these artists how they expressed themselves and how colour shapes that expression so we interviewed them for Qwear Fashion. You can find the full article and interview on their site www.qwearfashion.com