Pierre Antoine Vettorello

Pierre Antoine Vettorello’s work focuses on using textile design and garments as a base for storytelling. He creates sculptural and statement silhouettes embodying militancy, hostility and poetry. Some are inspired by machines of defense, objects of daily use, textiles and fabrics from West Africa, techniques gathered during travels and workshops. As a designer, he strives to include hand-made techniques and out-of-use objects in the making of garments and shapes in order to place them in the center of his work. As a human being and as a researcher, he is questioning our own relation towards our sartorial history and how we create myths around ‘designers’ in Western societies imitating colonial patterns. He identifies how we perceive and extract inspiration from the African continent and how we globally create borders between what is fashion and what is not.

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Vettorello received the ASVOF Diane Pernet award in 2010 and Arise Award in 2011.

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He is French & Ivorian, was born and raised in Bordeaux (France), now works and lives in Brussels (Belgium). He is a Ph.D. research fellow at the University of Antwerp and Sint Lucas Antwerp School of Arts.

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Latest Work

January - March 2021

AAIR - Artist in Residence, Antwerp

Vettorello is currently conducting research on decolonial perspectives in textile and fashion, working on revealing alternative narratives and genealogies comprised and hidden in the Western history of fashion.

https://www.aair.be/en/residenten/pierre-antoine-vettorello/

November 2019

Palais de Tokyo, Adelaïde Fériot - Avaler l'horizon, Paris

Collaboration with visual artist Adélaïde Fériot on a collection of hand-printed garments for performances.

September 2018 - February 2019

Etnografiska Museet, Stockholm

Part of the exhibition "Feathers" at the Etnografiska Museet in Stockholm.

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Education

2020

KdG Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp

Advanced Masters in Artistic Research within a Social & Political Context.

2010

Academy of Fine Arts, Fashion dpt., Antwerp

Masters & Bachelor in Fashion Design.

2005

ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, Paris

Certification in Textile Design.

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Teaching

Since 2021

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels

Teacher of fashion and textile design applications, project monitoring at the Executive Masters in Knitting Design program.

(French spoken)

Since 2015

Oxbridge Academic Programs, Paris

Teacher of fashion design, history of fashion and fashion criticism to grades 9-12 major and minor programs. Focus on Parisian Fashion.

(English spoken)

April 2021

Vettorello, Pierre Antoine. A conversation with Diana Bamimeke and Rima Hamid, Advanced Master of Research in Art and Design, special issue of TYPP. Antwerp: Yellow Press. 2021, pp. 35-42

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