Mari Sakhvadze

Mari Sakhvadze

Fashion Design Student

Mari Sakhvadze is a fourth-year bachelor’s student of Fashion Design at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, interested in experimental fashion, interdisciplinary practices and the relationship between clothing, cultural heritage, movement and spatial expression. Her practice combines research-based design with material experimentation, exploring how historical symbols, artistic disciplines and traditional techniques can be reinterpreted through contemporary fashion.

Selected Projects

• Unity, Creative Integration: an inclusive collaborative performance by the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University; theatre costume design
• Chronotope: Geometry of Life, international textile and research project combining Georgian and Egyptian cultural references with experimental textile practice. It began with a workshop in Georgia led by Egyptian textile artist and Global Pleating tutor Shadi Mohamed Hassan and continued in Alexandria, Egypt; each stage ended with an exhibition in Tbilisi
• The Blue Train (Le Train Bleu), research and experimental exhibition: a contemporary design interpretation of the 1924 ballet through fashion, theatre costume and design