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Aphiwe Sithole is building a new language for African luxury

Founded by Aphiwe Sithole, Cape Town's SITHOLE Luxury House is redefining African luxury on global runways with narrative-driven, limited-edition eyewear.

When survival becomes the business plan: how a 21-year-old designer is building a future beyond unemployment

The story of youth unemployment in South Africa is often told through percentages, economic forecasts and reports about a shrinking job market. But behind the figures are young…

Nine Yards is not trying to reinvent Rosebank. If anything, it understands exactly what makes the area seductive.

Nine Yards is reimagining slow living in Joburg

A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience

Street smart: The Living Artists Emporium, which forms part of the Contra.Joburg festival on at the end of the month. Pictures: Supplied

Contra.Joburg creates space for art that finds you

The city’s most radical art festival returns to disrupt, inspire and reconnect the city through the raw power of studio-born creativity

Take 2: Tutu Puoane has returned from Belgium to perform in the country’s major cities in August.

Diary: Tutu Puoane to tour in South Africa, Cold Chinese Food set to release new album in July and The Capitec handmadeAFRICA at Decorex

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Local legends: Lauren Hendricks will take audiences on a powerful musical journey.

Diary: Lauren Hendricks is all jazzed up, Kwesta’s new Joy, Capitec handmadeAFRICA returns

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Showcase: Zanele Kumalo will take part in Design Week South Africa, which will be on in Joburg and Cape Town

Diary: Design Week South Africa kicks off, African Women artists shine in London, look out for the inaugural Hazendal Festival

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Material change: Bernie Molepo is the founder and managing director of Cosmopolitan Sourcing. Photo: Allaister Russel

From tea lady to MD – the power of self-belief

Bernie Molepo started her own fabric and wallpaper sourcing company

Objects of Desire: Little luxuries

H&M taps Rich Mnisi, while candles provide a ‘scents’ of place

Ntwana is the new designer on our
radar.

Objects of Desire: Local legends

Uniquely South African designers who break the mould

SA inaugural design week: Reimagine everything

It’s time for the local design industry to take back its agency and reclaim its narratives, rather than letting others interpret them

Christian Louboutin’s Movida Athina sandals feature designs inspired by life in Ancient Greece.

Objects of Desire: Rebel against ‘quiet luxury’

Quiet luxury is actually kind of loud

Cartier’s reimagined Révélation d’Une Panthère has hundreds of diamonds on its face. Photo: Supplied

Objects of Desire: Fierce and Fabulous

Fierce designs that are fabulously unique

The Gradient Light from Philip Kramer brings the golden hour indoors.

Objects of Desire: African ateliers

Some of the continent’s finest goods made for the world, in Africa

Chanel No. 5 … a perennial favourite fragrance.

Objects of Desire: Prep in your step

Is prep back in full swing?