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Grey Sheep

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Location

Tetouan / morocco

University

ecole spéciale d'architecture, paris

Graduation year

2010

Main Manufacturing Countries

morocco

Contact

Sanaa Chaabi, the artist and designer, was born in Tunis and raised in Morocco. She travelled around Italy and studied the Italian language, the history of art and Italian cinema at Universita Per Stranieri. Sanaa then pursued architecture at L’Ecole Spéciale D’Architecture in Paris, where she developed her thesis in the art of Islamic geometry in the Arab world. Sanaa has taken on painting classes for the past three years. Her paintings often inspire her and become part of her garment creations.

Sanaa has merged two of her passions: that of design and creation and that of story telling. She has decided to bring together both her admiration for abstract art and her dedication to supporting women of Morocco.

After experimenting many forms of arts, the artist decided to build her own atelier and started a ready to wear collection. that was mainly inspired by that women and the nature that was around her. And she wanted the JEBLIYA to be the main character of the stories that I wanted to tell.

Latest Collection

Jebliya

“I sit in my atelier facing mountains, look through all the materials I have, and start putting things together. I always start with a story, then I start thinking about the colours and textures. Sometimes it’s a colour palette, or specific materials i want to work with. Whatever textures I choose I like to reflect emotions. Nothing is random, everything is thought out.

The Jebliya, the main character of the story, is present in each garment, drawn in different scenes of her everyday life, and sometimes traveling the World. The Jebliyates themselves, living in the region, realize these drawings thanks to embroideries, beading and other techniques that we invent sometimes together.