Milan Fashion Week has never been interested in playing it safe, and the Spring/Summer 2027 season made that particularly clear. Across more than 200 events, Italian fashion moved between restraint and excess, heritage and experimentation, with designers using clothes to examine everything from femininity and power to nightlife, nostalgia and the increasingly blurred line between fashion and performance. If there was one defining mood, it was a refusal to settle on a single one.
The MTV Video Music Awards have never been a place for playing it safe. For decades, the ceremony’s carpet has occupied its own corner of fashion history, where pop spectacle, experimentation and a little provocation are not only welcomed, but expected. At the 2026 VMAs, that spirit was alive and well.
In a world increasingly enamoured with quiet luxury, Zimbabwean fashion house Zargue’sia is unafraid of grandeur. Founded by designer Ishmael Tsakatsa, the Harare-based house creates garments where precision tailoring meets sumptuous fabrics, intricate embellishment and silhouettes with a distinctly regal sensibility. The effect is glamorous without feeling disposable, polished yet rich with drama.
The beauty world descended on Johannesburg’s Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit on 19 September as L’Oréal Paris brought its Ultimate Makeup Masterclass Volume 3 to life, welcoming hundreds of beauty lovers for a day dedicated to makeup artistry, product discovery, self-expression and, of course, a little glamour.
There is something rather fitting about Gert-Johan Coetzee finding his way into fragrance at a time when so much of his life has been about learning to slow down.
Born from a conversation between two sisters, Ghanaian label Winara Woman is creating a wardrobe for women who refuse to be reduced to a single version of themselves.
A woman can be many things at once. She can be commanding and soft, understated and magnetic, impeccably polished at noon and gloriously dressed by night. Winara Woman understands this duality and has built its entire fashion proposition around it.
With 27 years of research behind it, Lancôme’s Génifique Ultimate marks a new chapter in skin repair. We step inside The Open Lab to discover the science, technology and innovation behind the brand’s latest skincare breakthrough.
What happens when luxury beauty meets cutting-edge science? At L’Oréal South Africa’s Centre of Excellence for African Beauty Science in Midrand, Lancôme recently opened the doors to its world of innovation with The Open Lab by Lancôme, an intimate experience designed to take media and creators beyond the traditional beauty launch and into the science behind its latest skincare breakthrough, Génifique Ultimate.
With deconstructed denim, handwoven Ghanaian textiles and a taste for the subversive, David Kusi Boye-Doe is building a fashion house that looks backwards only to move forward.
Forget everything you think you know about African luxury. BOYEDOE is not interested in simply translating heritage into beautiful clothes. The Ghanaian label is pulling heritage apart, turning it inside out and reconstructing it into something sharper, stranger and decidedly of the now.
For Precious Xaba, the future of beauty begins with education. After building a career as an award-winning makeup artist behind some of South Africa’s biggest entertainment platforms, she is now using her experience to champion something she believes the industry can no longer afford to overlook: credible, accredited beauty education.
South Africa’s fashion industry has never lacked creativity. From emerging designers producing globally relevant collections to manufacturers driving innovation in local production, the sector is rich with talent. Yet for many entrepreneurs, creativity alone is rarely enough to build a sustainable business.