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What would Rich Mnisi do?

Article Jabulile Dlamini Qwesha - 19 Dec 2019

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Mdingi isn’t your hype beast

Article Dinika Govender - 22 Feb 2019

Three years into a globally appraised luxury fashion business this designer is investing in honesty and environmental integrity

Magugu fashions a new look for Sunday bests

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 2 Nov 2018

The fashion designer’s latest collection of the conservative conceals as it reveals

Arts and Culture – Tebo Bakwena

Article Mike Olivier - 20 Sep 2016

She now has her own company known as EFIGY productions, which stages fashion and modelling events in South Africa and Botswana.

Aesthetic soul food from designer Loza Maléombho

Article Staff Reporter - 18 May 2016

This Ivorian designer's latest collection is rooted in a homage to Africa, with a reimagined make-up and the shape of the sartorial.

South Africa has a bold new vision for the fashion industry

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Mar 2015

Collaboration throughout the fashion chain means that fashionistas will no longer have to wait for the trends abroad to arrive on local shores.

Marvel at the humble vellie’s fashion feat

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Jun 2013

Ewald Schier founded Schier Shoes in 1938 in Swakopmund. The brand was behind the revival of the African desert boots, also known as veldskoene.

Green is the new, er, green

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Nov 2011

Last Friday fashion students at the Tshwane University of Technology held their annual fashion show.

Ramping up local talent

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Sep 2011

Fashion Week's most obvious trend was support for local design from mainstream corporates.

Niger’s Alphadi pushes African fashion to global scene

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jun 2011

Niger is better known for its poverty, not fashion. But out of this dusty and arid nation has emerged a man as colourful as his creations, Alphadi.

From Obama America to Runway Africa

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Apr 2009

In an excerpt from the SA Fashion Week catalogue American academic Victoria L Rovine discusses the world's perception of African fashion.

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