Mpumelelo Dhlamini was born with creativity flowing through his veins. Growing up surrounded by hard-working, fashionable women, this creativity was nurtured, cultivated, and has culminated into his luxury ready-to-wear brand, Ezokhetho. The brand name is isiZulu for...
Alex van Heerden, a 22-year-old fashion and textile design student, has caught the industry's attention. Alex’s fashion journey began later than most. Fresh out school, she was set to follow her friends to Stellenbosch to study teaching. Although, she had never...
Ntando XV Ngwenya founded an eponymous artisanal clothing brand in 2015 which seeks to break with the norms of how and why clothes are made. After wowing SA Fashion Week AW20 with his XV Project 0,8, his collection caught the eye of wardrobe curator and founder of...
Husband and wife team, Sipho and Zikhona Tefu started their organic, handmade and natural skincare brand O’live in their kitchen in 2011. Zikhona produced a batch of 10 soaps as a personal experiment to move towards a more natural lifestyle and to help her daughter’s...
Spring has sprung and for many it means a closet clean-out. When it comes to curating a conscious closet, underwear can be tricky. While your old drawers can be darned and mended, these items are seldom swapped, borrowed, thrifted or donated for obvious reasons. We...
South African designer Denzel Vilakazi studied Fashion Design at the Tshwane University of Technology. After placing second at the Sansui Summer Cup in Gauteng in 2017, the Edcon Group pulled him into their 21 Steps to Retail programme where he founded NESU. NESU is...
With a growing, global consciousness about the environment, the need for sustainable feminine products is obvious. Enter Juanita Kotze who, with partners Aldré Geldenhuys of V&G Personal Products and designer Eugenie Marais, has developed the country’s first...
The Cuttings 1820 – 2020 exhibition, a tribute to South African women and their histories, is a symbolically-charged collaborative exhibition by artist, Pippa Hetherington and the Keiskamma Art Project exploring the fabric of our society, unravelling and re-stitching histories into symbolic frocks.
With a letterbox stuffed with acceptance letters to study occupational therapy, physiotherapy and medicine from The University of Witwatersrand, Pavs decided to continue the work of her role models and fight for social and environmental injustices. In 2001, she...
The vision of a circular economy is inspiring businesses all over the world to create innovative solutions to increase the lifespan of our stuff. These solutions are addressing our 'waste culture' and the larger environmental problems that go with it. An example of a...
Our work is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 12, which aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production. Read More
