DOUBLE TIME
Model Cecile Canepa wears a Thebe Magugu designer coat and pants repurposed by Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino. Valentino shirt and gloves.
When South Africa’s fashion wunderkind Thebe Magugu first opened the mystery crate from Rome containing Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino haute couture garment, he recognised it at once as the dress that Tracee Ellis Ross wore to grace the 2018 Emmy Awards. This was the garment chosen by Piccioli that Magugu would be tasked with reimagining as the second chapter of s dress-swap initiative: two designers working their individual alchemy to transform a fellow creator’s work. For Piccioli, the project has special resonance. “I love the idea
