High-end denim brand G-Star RAW will be presenting its latest innovation and collection at a 3 day immersive event in Cape Town from the 20th of March to the 22nd of March. The three day event will take place at the ORO Africa Building, 170 Buitengracht Street in Cape Town, and will offer the media…
The Soweto Derby is an important part of South Africa’s football culture. The one day event unifies approximately 90 000 soccer fans in a stadium and millions of fans who watch from their television screens all over the country. To say that this particular event is just a highly-anticipated soccer match is an understatement; it…
After presenting us with Nwa-Mulamula – Alkebulan – 2 navy leather mirrored armchairs in 2019 and an Alkebulan clothing collection at the Berlin Fashion Week early this year – Rich Mnisi drops another breathtaking Alkebulan project; The Azania bags. The bag collection comprises of three leather bags – a half-circle-shaped black leather clutch bag coupled…
Brazilian photographer Lucas Affonso and Stylist Julliana Araujo present their latest collaboration and creation: BERCHA. Shot in a studio in Rio de Janeiro, where both Lucas and Julliana reside and it gives off nothing but soulful and nostalgic vibes. Set against a silk purple backdrop, what could be your grandmother’s duvet cover, and wooden floor….
“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…
