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I'm excited that the brilliant Berlin-based artist collective known as Slavs and Tatars, guest curators of the 9th edition of the Asia NOW art fair, have invited me to create an installation of nearly two dozen of my ikat coats and kaftans. The event will be at La Monnaie in Paris, October 20-22, 2023, Slavs and Tatars have traveled and researched extensively in Central Asia, before arriving at a deep understanding of these precious centuries-old handloomed textiles: "Nazzy is one of the very few people in the world who has managed to build upon the rich tradition of ikats in a manner that does justice to their rich complexity in a resolutely contemporary, sophisticated, not to mention, wearable manner." I will be in the company of thirteen other artists from Central Asia, most of them women, whose medium is textiles. Ikat is an ancient technique of weaving textiles where lengths of raw dyed yarn are bundled and tied together to prevent color from penetrating the threads. When th bundles are unwrapped, the yarn is hand loomed in the pattern that was envisioned at the start of the process. The Persian term "abr-bandi" or "to tie clouds" is used to describe the binding technique that gives ikat its characteristic cloud-like pattern. My coats and kaftans aren't really designed by me - it is the ikat itself that tells me what it wants to be. For media inquiries please contact Sandra Schneider [email protected] @slavsandtatars @asianow #installation #art #artfair #ikat #centralasia #nazzystyle #nazzyfashion #exhibition #style #masterweaver #textiles #corefashion #photooftheday #photoshootsessioninnyc @dontbotherlp @serenellausai