New Collaboration between Studio Arts Faculty Tschabalala Self ’12 and Ugg Boots Is Featured in Vogue, with Photos by Christian DeFonte ’12

Bard alumna and visiting artist in residence Tschabalala Self ’12, known for her figurative collage paintings of Black female bodies, has just launched a new brand collaboration. Her Ugg x Tschabalala Self capsule collection is made up of colorful twists on Ugg’s boots, slippers, outerwear, and accessories, which combine form, function, and Self’s exuberant creative vision. “It was kind of a natural fit,” she says. “Ugg is a brand that deals a lot with materiality and texture, and I deal with that stuff in my painting as well.” With this project, she notes, “I’m using a lot of the same aesthetic tropes and types of patterning and design and geometry that I would generally use in my practice, but the figure is not present.”

Post Date: 03-08-2022