Mozambique-born artist Cassi Namoda worked with Catbird to create a collection inspired by the country’s enchanting relationship with jewelry and stones.
. Namoda’s vibrant work centers on post-colonial Mozambique, exploring the quiet moments of daily life as well as broader subjects of race, culture, and history. Jewelry is often depicted in Namoda’s portraits, and earlier this year, she’d been thinking about how she might create an “ode to Mozambique” through the medium.
Cut to April, and a serendipitous call with Plessner and Vardi put the idea in motion. The designers had sent Namoda jewelry from Catbird’s collaboration, and Namoda floated the idea of working together on a capsule. As fans of Namoda’s work and the rich story behind her vision, Plessner and Vardi didn’t think twice about it: “She sent us tons and tons of references about Mozambique, plus photos of Princess Elizabeth of Toro,” Plessner says.
Most pieces were influenced by a particularly enchanting Mozambique tradition: Every day, locals comb the beach looking for gemstones, amber, and gold that have washed up from centuries-old shipwrecks along the ocean floor. In other words: real buried treasure. Many homes have their own “treasure chests,” and Namoda returned to New York with a small collection of amber, Italian glass beads, and Ming Dynasty porcelain.
The real treat was seeing Namoda wear the jewelry in her own space, which was filled with enormous unfinished canvases and her crew of stylish friends: producer and model Sage Elsesser, artists Ludovic Knoth and Ekene Ijeoma, and Sincerely Tommy’s Kai Avent-DeLeon and her husband, Nate Thellen. As Laila Gohar set out plates of summer vegetables and rosemary cocktails, an air of joy and ease radiated through the room. This was how we’d all imagined our re-emerging: joyful, colorful, relaxed.
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