Established over two decades years ago, the SA Fashion Week New Talent Search competition is a well-respected industry springboard. It has helped launch the likes of household South African designers such as David Tlale, Black Coffee, Tiaan Nagel, Anissa Mpungwe of...
Nicholas Coutts and LVMH Prize 2021 finalist Lukhanyo Mdingi first met when they were fashion students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Design Academy of Fashion, respectively, and later they were not only friends but professional peers too. They...
Sipho Mbuto showed his upcycled Dlala SS21 collection at SA Fashion Week on Thursday evening. Inspired by the tenacity of children who create toys with found objects, he has refashioned secondhand denim jeans. The can’t-miss labels offer the background to the...
The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,600 more, is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident. It is not just the body count, though, that made the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a nine-story building in the...
In her work photographer, Claudia Mauderer recognises that plastic waste material threatens nature. The young photographer and recent graduate of the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award 2021 Student...
