“Desiring fashion that moves and unsettles when viewed, but also calms and nurtures the wearer, how does fashion fold into the crevices where identity shifts? In homage to her experience as a first-generation Kenyan-American, SHANGARI also considers rituals of her parents’ tribes: Taita and Luhya. Such include Scarification as a beauty practice and cowrie shells as a tool for spiritual and ritual practices, both dissolving in practice due to colonialism yet alive and channeled through her work.”
