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Pierre-Antoine Vettorello is an Afro-European artist-researcher using textiles and clothing as medium. He is a researcher in the arts at Sint Lucas Antwerpen KdG) /ARIA and the University of Antwerp . His PhD project "Black Yarns: Fashion and Resistance of Black Women in the Senegalese Diaspora (1939-1966)," is a practice-based artistic research that highlights the resistance of black women through clothing in Paris. Pierre-Antoine studied textile design at Olivier de Serres, then fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he earned his Master's degree in 2010. In 2019, he graduated from the Advanced Master of Research in Arts & Design at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG). Pierre-Antoine Vettorello is also part of the inter-university research group on the transmission of craftsmanship in Flanders, "Crafting Futures." He has participated in several artistic residencies, notably at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2022), Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis (2022), SuperOtium in Naples (2024), and Océan Savane (2024). His work combines fashion, sculpture, fashion critique, and resistance through clothing. He is the author of a chapter entitled "Uniqueness in Fashion: Disrupting Modernity, Igniting Indigenous Romanticism" in the forthcoming *The Future of Fashion* Education. (Routledge, UK), and he is also the editor of the bilingual zine The Yarn. Additionally, he has taught artistic research methodology at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and supervises Master's theses at the Institut Marangoni in Paris. Portrait of Pierre-Antoine: William Thompson

Contact:
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Links
Site web : www.pierreantoinev.com Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/pierre-antoine-vettorello-6b415726 Crafting futures: https://www.craftingfutures.be/en/ The Yarn : https://theyarn.cargo.site