What to wear during a summer heatwave
Looking stylish in a summer heatwave – while keeping sweat and stress to a minimum – is no easy feat. To help, we have put together a guide of tips and tricks for you. And we’ve curated a range of...
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28 Slow and sustainable gifting ideas
The season of gifting is upon us! While we discourage wasteful hyper-consumption, we know that gifting is a way to show gratitude for your nearest and dearest. And, thoughtful consumerism is an opportunity to support small businesses that are buoying...
99 Design is a new spot to shop local in the heart of Braamfontein
There’s a new kid on the block in the heart of Braamfontein – a curated, multi-label Johannesburg design store at 99 Juta Street. After a two-year journey 99 Design opened at the beginning of September to spotlight emerging designers. “99...
7 South African hat brands to keep you shaded in style
With our outdoor lifestyles, we are susceptible to the sun’s harmful UV rays. This means that as we gear up for the heat of summer, having a hat to protect you is a summer essential. “Since my parent’s generation used...
Q&A: Tsakani Mashaba says Hamethop resists the fashion establishment
Hamethop’s embodies diverse realities through fashion and design, allowing those who engage with it to reflect on how they can define themselves. This is according to the Hamethop website. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Hamethop is a fashion and accessories...
Mount Nelson Hotel to host fashion-infused high teas celebrating South Africa’s top designers
We are in a golden age of South African fashion. In recent years, multiple South African fashion designers have been internationally-recognised for their invaluable contributions to the worlds of innovation, luxury, storytelling, and style. Aside from global accolades, what unites...
Q&A: Samantha Rayment showcases the work of local artisans through handcrafted rope bags
KELP by Ray is a Cape Town-based sustainable fashion brand that sells a range of high-quality cotton rope bags. Each bag is individually handcrafted by local artisans in the Mother City from locally sourced materials. Their versatile bags are made...
11 Sustainability inspired designers who showed at #WeekOfFashion
SA Menswear Week has always been a much-loved portal to new ideas and the raw talent conceptualising them. As the event morphs into a #WeekOfFashion to include womenswear, the producers continue to deliver on their initial promise, while also showcasing...
Q&A: Tanisha Neill’s capsule clothing brand encourages creativity over consumption
The beginnings of N I S H can be traced back to an old roll of beautifully weighted upholstery linen found in a garage in Cape Town. This found fabric was the input of Tanisha Neill’s first fashion design and...
Essential Elegance
Trends may come and go, but elegance will always remain in style. These pandemic years have allowed us to pause, reflect, and examine what is truly essential in our lives. For many, this lens has extended to our clothing and...
Fashion film ‘Stories of Hope’ celebrates textile connections between Indonesia and South Africa
With a shared history of Dutch colonial rule and cultural overlaps due to the legacy of slavery, the societal fabric of Indonesia and South Africa, separated by vast swathes of ocean, have more in common than you might think. The...
SA Fashion Week 2022 Maps a Sustainable Way Forward
We can no longer deny the fashion industry’s role in the layered social and ecological crises playing out across the world. But, fashion also adds immense value to our lives as a medium for expression, storytelling, and creativity. And so,...
7 Fresh Produce Subscription Boxes to Help You Support Small and Local
In South Africa, the movement to support local, small-scale growers and farmers is on the rise as citizen-consumers have become more aware of the effects of large-scale commercial farming on their health and the environment. Supporting local food systems is...
A Time For New Dreams
In the lush Newlands Forest where dappled light leaves a dreamscape, we create versions of self and become all we wish to be through the transformative power of fashion. Soulful and transcendent, A Time For New Dreams reconnect us with...
Get Hooked
Bev Nates has created a magical fashion editorial that is a tribute to her Russian grandmother, Lilly Levin, whom she adored. Bev remembers her granny sitting alongside a Russian teapot with countless clashing and brightly coloured yarns and a crochet...