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රුවන්ති පවිත්රා ගජධීර ருவந்தி பவித்ரா கஜதீர | |
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Born |
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka | 20 August 1996
Nationality | Sri Lankan |
Education | Northumbria University, University of Moratuwa, Ladies' College, Colombo |
Occupation | Fashion designer |
Years active | 2020-present |
Label | kǣli |
Ruwanthi Gajadeera ( Sinhala: රුවන්ති පවිත්රා ගජධීර, Tamil: ருவந்தி பவித்ரா கஜதீர; born 20 August 1996) is a Sri Lankan sustainable fashion and textile designer. [1] She is the first South Asian fashion designer to win the Taiwan Fashion Design Awards at 2021 Taipei Fashion Week SS22. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] She has also represented Sri Lanka in a variety of other international competitions such as Redress Design Awards 2021, Hong Kong, [7] International Baltic Ethnic Fashion Festival 2021, Saint Petersburg [8] and Graduate Fashion Week 2021, London. [9] [10]
Through her designs, she attempts to communicate the importance of the slow fashion movement. [11] [10] She approached her aesthetic from the perspective by incorporating generational qualities of fashion and Buddhist philosophies. [11] [10] Ruwanthi's garments have showcased a combination of heritage crafts [1] and high-tech techniques that express 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in the complete garment lifecycle. [11] [12] [13] She states that to create circular garments, she employs zero-waste, up-cycling, reconstruction techniques. [14] [10]
Ruwanthi was born in Colombo to a Buddhist family. [11] Ruwanthi spent her early childhood in Padiyathalawa, a town in Amapara. [11] Later on, she moved to Colombo and studied at Ladies' College, Colombo. [6] Upon completing her primary education she entered the University of Moratuwa to study landscape architecture, [11] but later she became more interested in fashion and textile design. [11] She dropped out of the University of Moratuwa and pursued her career in fashion design. [11]
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Ruwanthi Gajadeera | |
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රුවන්ති පවිත්රා ගජධීර ருவந்தி பவித்ரா கஜதீர | |
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Born |
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka | 20 August 1996
Nationality | Sri Lankan |
Education | Northumbria University, University of Moratuwa, Ladies' College, Colombo |
Occupation | Fashion designer |
Years active | 2020-present |
Label | kǣli |
Ruwanthi Gajadeera ( Sinhala: රුවන්ති පවිත්රා ගජධීර, Tamil: ருவந்தி பவித்ரா கஜதீர; born 20 August 1996) is a Sri Lankan sustainable fashion and textile designer. [1] She is the first South Asian fashion designer to win the Taiwan Fashion Design Awards at 2021 Taipei Fashion Week SS22. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] She has also represented Sri Lanka in a variety of other international competitions such as Redress Design Awards 2021, Hong Kong, [7] International Baltic Ethnic Fashion Festival 2021, Saint Petersburg [8] and Graduate Fashion Week 2021, London. [9] [10]
Through her designs, she attempts to communicate the importance of the slow fashion movement. [11] [10] She approached her aesthetic from the perspective by incorporating generational qualities of fashion and Buddhist philosophies. [11] [10] Ruwanthi's garments have showcased a combination of heritage crafts [1] and high-tech techniques that express 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in the complete garment lifecycle. [11] [12] [13] She states that to create circular garments, she employs zero-waste, up-cycling, reconstruction techniques. [14] [10]
Ruwanthi was born in Colombo to a Buddhist family. [11] Ruwanthi spent her early childhood in Padiyathalawa, a town in Amapara. [11] Later on, she moved to Colombo and studied at Ladies' College, Colombo. [6] Upon completing her primary education she entered the University of Moratuwa to study landscape architecture, [11] but later she became more interested in fashion and textile design. [11] She dropped out of the University of Moratuwa and pursued her career in fashion design. [11]