Alona Nelly Cohen [Show Notes] Private Viewing 7:30pm-9:30pm

Alona Nelly Cohen is a French and Swiss London-based fashion designer, CSM BA Fashion Print graduate and Maison/0 Green Trail Winner 2025 who explores her Sephardic ancestry and culture through print and textiles. She is currently at Burberry, and has worked in print design at Marine Serre for seasonal collections and for the Paris-based interior design studio Laura Gonzalez. 

Alona’s garments, accessories, prints and paperwork centre sustainability through the revival of traditional Sephardic craftsmanship and celebration of the plurality of the Jewish diaspora. Her work aims to revive the worlds of Amazigh Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, and identifies the risk of these worlds fading into the past.

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The artist’s upbringing is filled with stories of Sephardic Jews who continued to weave, embroider, and craft jewellery despite their displacement and exile. Her research and camera roll is full of stories of Jewish craftsmen and merchants, jewellery…