Christine Tabagari

Christine Tabagari

Fashion Design Student

Christine Tabagari is a fourth-year Fashion Design student at the Apollon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. She is interested in fashion construction, unusual garment forms and solving creative construction problems, exploring how an idea can be turned into a real, three-dimensional garment through shape, structure and materials. She has taken part in academy projects including The Blue Train ballet project and the Egyptian project, which included a practical trip to Egypt to study folding and pleating techniques.

Meridional Axis: The Memory of Form (fashion-installation object)

The work explores the traditional garments, symbols and visual expressions of two ancient cultures, Georgia and Egypt, treating clothing as both a functional and an aesthetic object, the architecture of the soul connecting the inner world of the human being with cosmic order. Georgian traditional clothing, with its geometric arrangements, pleats, layers and Khevsurian ornaments, meets Egyptian ritual dress and hieroglyphic signs; in both cultures form and symbol mediate between time, the inner self and the cosmos.

Made of pleated wool in an achromatic palette (black for introspective wisdom, white for spiritual revelation), the ensemble and jacket use a constructive silhouette: columnar trousers recalling Egyptian temple columns and the vertical lines of Svan towers, pleating that brings the flow of time into a rigid structure, and sharp, geometric shoulders that echo pharaonic garments and the Georgian chokha.