In a country characterised by nuance, detail is everything in the South African contemporary fashion lexicon. As an important element of our greater culture, from head to toe, no item of clothing is without its significance and in 2022, the shoe that seems to have trail blazed its way ahead of the others, is the…
TJWHO is a menswear fashion luxury brand based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was created in 2018 and is known for infusing cross cultural references with a modern twist. Head designer, Taju Ibrahim always keeps an African perspective in mind when constructing garments. His work and designs have been seen on musicians like Burna Boy, Ladipoe…
BUBBLEGUM X partner, Daily Paper, has released their season lookbook, Identities Rebuilt, coinciding with the Amsterdam based organisation’s 10-year anniversary. BUBBLEGUM X is an initiative by Bubblegum Club and The Bubblegum Foundation aimed at advancing Africa’s ever-growing cultural influence in global creative scenes. The initiative is a means of leveraging and transforming this expanding cultural and…
Conversations around sustainability within the fashion industry are still topics with which we are grappling. Over the last decade, ideas around sustainable fashion and green politics have seeped more and more into the mainstream. Breaching past the gap of the avid fashion enthusiasts and the general public, the debates have become more and more rigorous,…
There are artists taking the opportunity to change the ways that their projects are visualised, realised and shared. By broadening the scope of their creative consideration, they attach the undertaking to a sense of reality that is aware, and that cares. Two such artists, gathering together a community of like-minded individuals as they go, are…
Los Angeles is known for its cool and casual fashion – an aesthetic that people of different classes and different backgrounds can relate to. The city is also home to Renaissance Creative Studios, the brainchild of Moustapha Ndiaye. Born in Senegal, Ndiaye moved to the sunny shores of California to pursue a degree in Finance….
The constrictions that exist in a world of conservative beliefs and traditionalist notions, may intentionally or unintentionally harm or suppress an individual’s innate right to freedom of expression. It is no secret that the world at large is quite conservative and that adaptations to certain kinds of changes offered by our communities are not being…
I don’t often think about my work as having a ‘political’ relationship with sites of home or homing as places of identity, and perhaps, they do exist in a way I myself have yet to understand. I do nonetheless think of home or homing — especially with regards to identity — as a place of…
The fashion in film during the first half of 2022 has been incredibly evocative and emotionally provocative. Not only are some of the films spellbinding but they are genuinely eccentric and they’ve taken each storytelling device: from the plot, and character to makeup and fashion, to another level. Three films that embrace this are X…
Zaid Osman has become one of the front men in growing and expanding South Africa’s streetwear culture. The Capetonian entrepreneur is the co-founder of Sneaker Exchange – the largest sneaker expo in Africa. The venture was inspired by his upbringing in the United States where he was immersed in the sneaker and streetwear culture. The…
This year’s South African Fashion Week (SAFW), yet again hosted by Mall of Africa, took place last month from 28 April – 30 April. In many ways, the Spring Summer 22 program is an exciting one, seeking out new talent in the form of the New Talent Search competition. Some of those contestants — with…
Clothing brand — VIVIERS — based in Johannesburg with an ethos of conceptualised pieces and radical fashion handlings, has launched its new MOTHERBOARD 2022 collection. A collection that proposes matrimony between technology and apparel, in an effort to (re)conceptualise going back to the source, returning to the core of our being. VIVIERS prides itself on…
