Relay Jeans, The Foschini Group’s (TFG) leading denim brand, is embracing individuality and the power of being undefined. The underlying reason for this course of action and movement comes as the brand aims to demonstrate how it has changed over time, shifting from solely emphasising its utilitarian benefits to immersing itself in the local denim…
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…
The process of producing images can allow one to hold personal histories in one’s hand. An assistant to memory, an image can outlive the people captured in the frame. Noncedo Charmaine‘s fascination with photography began at home with her mother’s photo album, an object that combines the above mentioned qualities. Reflecting on how her interest…
A cocoon of carefully interwoven fabric. Shoes, scarves, shirts, pants, skirts, jackets – every item of clothing a person owns morphed to make a human-sized sculpture. Why is that? Because there is a human being inside this heap of clothing. Canadian photographer Libby Oliver is spellbound by the power that clothing has to simultaneously reveal…
Throughout the history of art, artists have appreciated the versatility that fabric possesses. Viewed as clothing, skin and a source of identity, it can be manipulated and molded into an object (or subject) with conceptual depth. It allows for the creation of soft sculptures, or be used as aids in performance, but does not deny…
So who is Dr Pachanga? He is a walking talking brand. In Spanish his name means “good times” and he has a PhD in giving them. Dr Pachanga is the vision child of Jean Rene Onyangunga who, having left his home town Durban, went to Cape Town to work as a Stylist. Having come from…
