“The fabrics and the cuts we wear tell us about our society” – Amanda Cherry A pleated cuff shudders under the folded forms of flesh. The iconic white shirt – elongated and extended. Facilitating a gentle ease of motion while still maintaining architectural line and form. Languid limbs and leafy tendrils lie juxtaposed to an urban…
‘In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view’. Bloc Party lyrics that once punctuated the playlist of a monthly Newtown party called Cellardoor. The Cellardoor parties ran from 2005 to 2007: a two-year slice in the history of Johannesburg’s nocturnal life. Co-founder, Marc Latilla, holds a catalogue of flyers and photographs from…
We’ve become expert archivists of our lives after dark. At nightclub entrances and dotted across our dancfloors are clusters of partygoers huddling to snap that essential Selfie. A big night out is an exercise in self-curation — the clothes, the music, the crew, the venue – each serving as raw materials in our imagining of…
