Fashionistas are dressing from the feet up in hefty, flat and defiantly unsexy shoes that offer function over form, writes Hannah Marriott.
Digital boutiques are shaking up the fashion retail sector with competitive pricing, quality and designs.
Doreen Mashika has built a fashion brand with a conscience, dipped in continental heritage.
Music remains centre stage at Jazz Fest 2014, but its full schedule will include a fashion show and photographic exhibition honouring Nelson Mandela.
New apps allow fashionistas to find and buy or rent similar items worn by strangers or seen on websites.
Defying moral outrage is risky, but an emerging star – Aamito Stecie Lagum – hopes fancy footwork will take her beyond borders.
The rise in fashion sales at the Design Indaba over the years shows the importance of the expo as a retail space and the expo’s ever changing face.
Kampala’s bodaboda drivers dress in trendy, colourful clothes to ?attract customers.
The fashion industry is under assault from the arrival of foreign brands such as TopShop and Cotton On – not to mention the South African government.
Fashion: Maki Oh shines on the world stage, from Lagos Nigeria to New York and Los Angeles.
Women posed as dead bodies are an advertising staple, including the new Marc Jacobs ad with Miley Cyrus. Why does fashion fetishise the female corpse?
From a new Bridget Jones book, a wedge-style boot and hipster beards ad nauseum, we review last year’s biggest, bestselling, and most shared.
Editor at Large of VISI, Malibongwe Tyilo takes us through the top five celebrity fashion styles in 2013.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa will be taking place in Tshwane this year with designers from over 15 African nations, says its chairperson.
As demand for crocodile skin handbags increase, luxury goods companies such as Louis Vuitton and Gucci are making acquisitions to secure croc supply.
A British zoo said it has banned visitors from wearing leopard or zebra-print clothes because they were confusing the animals.
British catwalk model Jourdan Dunn has added her voice to a campaign led by black models for more diversity in the fashion industry.
Pastel shift dresses, khaki, women’s faces on skirts and coats, bejewelled bras, neon and mismatched prints flooded the catwalks in Italy this week.
The creator of the Babatunde fashion brand aims to show the world that the continent is a force to reckon with.
Celebrity fashion designer Walé Adeyemi creates collections rooted in the confluence of culture.
Duro Olowu’s award-winning creations are still influenced by the traditional shapes and colours of the continent of his birth.
Under great duress, we take a look at some of the silliest outfits from this year’s event – themed "Posh? Oh my gosh!"
Ewald Schier founded Schier Shoes in 1938 in Swakopmund. The brand was behind the revival of the African desert boots, also known as veldskoene.
The fashion designers have been convicted of tax evasion on around €1-billion but the sentence was suspended until after the appeals process.
Ahrendts took home almost £17-million last year, making her the highest-paid woman in Britain.
The Ellis sisters’ label, The Joinery, is ecofriendly and aims to prove that ethical and organic can be "sexy and exclusive".
VIDEO: Meet Malibongwe Tyilo, a creative who is putting local fashion and design in the multimedia spotlight. He is an M&G 200 Young South African.
Listening to designer Chloe Townsend narrating the origin of Missibaba is like following Alice through a psychedelic Wonderland.
This week at auction house Strauss & Co, Levin’s vintage collection was being prominently displayed amid exceptional pieces of South African art.
Hollywood’s biggest stars turned out for the launch of the exhibition which honours the creativity and individuality of punk’s fashion rebels.
Hunting down classic garments takes great dedication – but it also provides a special kind of retail therapy.
Curator Chris Spring’s journey into the world of African textiles began with the East African kangas, printed cloths usually worn by women.