Last week’s Smirnoff International Fashion Awards were overrun by the young and ruthlessly hip. If you survived the trek to Helderfontein Estate, you were assailed by adolescents in hipsters and halters, cooler-than-thou kids at the hottest party of summer. “Decadence” was this year’s design theme, and the press release was dotted with words like “depraved”, […]
When horrors happen – like Bhopal or the Exxon Valdez – Burson-Marsteller pours PR oil on its clients’ troubled waters, reports Andy Beckett If, by unhappy accident, you were to poison a river, or a customer, or the reputation, slowly assembled, of your corporate employer, then your salvation might arrive in a pale slim folder. […]
Maria McCloy Every time you ask anyone in the broadcasting world whether they know of any gay-oriented shows on South African airwaves, chances are they’ll refer you to In The Pink, a weekly programme on Cape community radio station Bush Radio. The show runs on Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. “It’s the only gay, […]
The Phillips Curve never died – it simply moved, argues Richard Thomas Economists are unlikely victims of fashion. The closest most get to the catwalk designs is a subtle but daring contrast between the colour of their cords and elbow patches. But intellectually, for all its seriousness, the profession has developed a butterfly tendency to […]
Last week was a turning point for South African fashion. Charl Blignaut on SA Fashion Week 1997 and Brenda Atkinson on the Smirnoff Awards. Photos: Danny Hoffman `You can only make one mistake with fashion,” said a top style writer to me over a glass of suitably dry champagne before the opening of South Africa’s […]
Maria McCloy: Design of the Week `It’s like going to the Zoo Lake, taking a shit photo and slapping it on.” This is how designer Nicholas Hauser describes the way in which music posters and covers are usually put together. He sure as hell is having none of that, judging by his work for some […]
Fires are costing lives and the economy – up to R15-billion this year, reports Charlene Smith Fire-insurance premiums are expected to leap by 50% to 100% because of a dramatic acceleration in claims over the past four years, according to the SA Insurance Association. Clem Booth, who is on the executive of the association and […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM ARMED raiders attacked 4 000 displaced Kenyans in a church compound overnight, killing at least three of them and sending the others fleeing. The latest attack brings the confirmed death toll in violence on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast to 43 since August 13. Many of the inland tribespeople who had sought sanctuary in […]
aThe new-look Mail & Guardian, with its striking new arts pullout, Friday, has been hailed by readers, media-watchers, and the advertising industry. The bulk of the redesign was done in-house by literary editor and chief designer Shaun de Waal, in consultation with Riaan de Villiers, a veteran journalist and production expert who works at the […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM COSATU’s week of one-day regional strikes in support of its demand for changes to the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Act moves to Gauteng and Northern Province on Thursday. THURSDAY, 6.00PM Cosatu-organised marchers in Johannesburg and Pretoria went off peacefully on Thursday. In Johannesburg, about 12 000 marchers presented a memorandum to the […]