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Leigh Magar is a multi-disciplinary creative artist whose work explores fashion, art, performance, and history. Following her training at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, she emerged nationally and locally as a unique high-fashion milliner, known as Magar Hatworks. In 2010 her design interests evolved with her current fashion and textile line, Madame Magar.
This “seed to stitch” project was inspired by the pioneering Eliza Lucas Pinckney who brought indigo to the lowcountry, and made it a successful cash crop in the mid-1700s. Magar’s activity interweaves design and nature by planting
a studio dye garden, growing indigo and other dye plants to use in one-of-a-kind collections, sold under her Madame Magar label.
Magar’s work includes hand-dyed and hand-stitched garments and goods, textile art exhibits, installations (makeshift studios and shops), performances, and workshops (dyeing from dye garden and wild plants).
She is inspired by traditional and simple sewing techniques, such as quilt making and hand-sewn textiles, to create contemporary, outside-the-box artwork.
Leigh Magar
Charleston
