When she isn’t going for runs with her dog or hiking, Jessi-Jean Havemann is at her desk designing the magic that is Balthazaar bags and cushions. With an ethical approach to how she makes her makes her bags, Jessi-Jean believes that anyone can change the world. I had an interview with her about her love…
Mélange is the title of Odette Steele’s luxury women’s wear textile collection. Mélange is defined as a varied mixture. Her works invokes the reality of what it means to be in our world; a kaleidoscope of experiences and interactions that have influenced our complex and often tricky understanding of who we are and what we…
In this episode we share footage from our visit to the Puma Select store in Braamfontein where we got the info on Select Stories, a series of streetwear collaborations and workshops with Puma to showcase local talent. Our fashion feature sees DOCC founder Nokana Mojapelo translate construction wear into fashion for the streets. We checked…
Luke Maritz is the creator of Not Seen Store, the Cape Town based brand, locally hand crafted and inspired by counter culture, youth culture, streetwear and graffiti. On edge and not on hype. Not Seen has recently launched its online store that is designed exceedingly well. Navigation is easy, the typography selected for the overall feel…
I met Ib Kamara on a hot morning. I was still in my post Saturday jol-haze when I introduced myself to the stylist who I had previously only known from his portraits. Like apparitions from the digital spheres leaping straight out of his Instagram, I would see him and his team, returning from their morning…
In this episode we chat to Norwegian womenswear designer Edda Gimnes about the collection that she showed at SA Fashion Week. DJ Okapi shows us the right way to end off the week with old-school SA music on vinyl at The Q-Club in Maboneng. We speak to Young and Lazy designer Anees Petersen about the…
In their Litephase 4.1 lookbook 2BOP explores interesting ways of presenting a collection that is predominantly made up of t-shirts. Luke Doman explains that they were “trying to make the t-shirt the focal point without producing a bunch of straight up product shot type portraits”. In this lookbook the emphasis is on being able to…
In this episode you see footage from our visit to the August House Open Studio Exhibition where we spoke to artists Neo Mahlangu and Themba Khumalo about the exhibition and their work. Phiko Mditshwa gives a taste of a “cultured look” in our street fashion feature. Okmalumkoolkat chats to us about his party, Partytime Shandees,…
Referencing the EQT from the 90s, adidas Originals brought back the design in January this year with innovative material and technology. As part of celebrating the re-birth of the EQT, an open invite went out to South Africans born in the ’90s to be photographed at different locations in Johannesburg. The open casting started off…
I had a conversation with young jewellery designer and founder of LORNE, Gillian Lawrence. Gillian describes the unfortunate event of all her jewellery being stolen as the moment which opened up her design spirit to look at her work differently. Having lost jewellery which held sentimental value for her, her relationship with jewellery was no…
I spoke to Creative Director at MARIANNE FASSLER Lezanne Viviers about their #FASSLERFABULOUS AW17 collection. Tell our readers about the thinking behind this collection. The #FASSLERFABULOUS AW17 collection is a celebration of this Iconic brand, which is MARIANNE FASSLER and it’s 40 years of existence. #HANDSON and #CRAFTISSTILLTHENEWLUXURY are both adjectives to describe the master…
This episode features footage from Geneva. CUSS GROUP were part of an exhibition titled Held Together With Water at Le Commun in Geneva. Curator, writer and publisher Roxane Bovet chatted to us about the exhibition and it’s exploration of Post-digital culture and Post Internet art. We also spoke to South African artist Victoria Wigzell who…
