“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summitsfirst the great horses of noise reared against the skythen sluggishly the great limp octopus of smokea derisory spitter injecting the night withthe insolent perfume of a citronella lampand a wind swept down on the islandsto be riddled by the suspect violence of the locusts . ….
The fashion scene is one such space where time seems to function in a non-linear manner. With designers having to do the work of continuously looking back at what has been done as a source of inspiration, while simultaneously looking to the future for what is to come next. This non-linear experience of time and…
Moroccan based Israeli designer Artsi Ifrach and Moroccan-Belgian photographer Mous Lamrabat are the creative minds behind Artsimous; the collective with a knack for probing at stereotyped constructs surrounding beauty and fashion. With an air of the avant-garde hanging over their often almost Afro-futurist depictions of a modern and progressive Morocco the creative duo’s projects can…
Lezanne Viviers has come a long way from being a fashion design student in sleepy Stellenbosch. With the start of 2020 already seeing her showcasing her immaculate creations from the OR/BITING AURABOROS collection created in collaborative effort with visual artist Marlene Hettie Steyn, Pascale Theron and of course Viviers herself under her label, at this…
The dust has barley began to settle on 2020 and the new decade it has ushered in, and yet, we have already been graciously blessed with a socio-cultural read so effortlessly-and-tongue-in-cheekly delivered by director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho while accepting his award at the Golden Globes this past week for his latest masterful cinematic offering…
Birthed and stitched into fruition in Lagos Nigeria, BLOKE is an androgynous artisanal label introducing a distinct notion of luxury through a quirky and idiosyncratic aesthetic which is simultaneously, as they describe, “enveloped with an undertone of spiritual consciousness”. With the announcement of its Spring/Summer 20 collection through visuals, BLOKE employs an interesting use of…
Sole DXB– now in its 8th year running -is an annual arts, streetwear and lifestyle festival. This year the festival’s interest focused in on Jamaica and the island country’s rich arts scene. The event ran from 5-7 December in Dubai’s Design District (d3). Synthesising as an all encompassing experience of film screenings, music, fashion and a…
The garments we live our lives in; art and feeling made costume//armour: The garments we make life in; receptacle-like-archives and mirrors of the then, now and impending moment. nuun is a moment that represents the design philosophies shared between a mother; Zainab Martin and son; Shaheed Martin. The pieces encompassed within nuun were borne through…
A collaboration between Durban-born, Brooklyn, New York-based artists and graphic designer Louis de Villiers, formerly known as SkullBoy, and Amanda Laird Cherry Apparel; the limited LDV x ALC capsule examines how we present ourselves to the world and how the world influences the way we present ourselves, with the further idea of how creatives flex…
Pertinent more than ever in this moment, is an approach to design guided by technological and sustainable futurologies. The new reflective ALPHAEDGE 4D running shoe, dropping in black and white and that expands the adidas 4D range is the very embodiment of the possibilities that lie at the intersection of this design innovation. The 4D…
The rise of Velma Rossa and Oliver Asike (or Papa Petit) is Africa’s quintessential internet success story of the fashion and art world. The duo goes by the name 2manysiblings and the prosperity they’ve managed to gleam between sharing their outfits on Tumblr in 2013 and now, having featured in Vogue, styling some of the…
Resourceful, resilient and undoubtedly ready to absorb all he can, are just some of the attributes that come to mind when thinking of Katekani Moreku’s rise to success. It’s no secret that the fashion industry is tough, especially within a South African context where there is but a small market of fashion enthusiasts to target…
