Fashion

There are designers who dress the body, and then there are designers who build entire visual worlds. Banke Kuku belongs firmly to the latter. Her work does not simply exist on fabric. It unfolds, it lingers, it speaks in colour and rhythm, carrying with it the memory of cities, cultures, and lived-in duality. Born in Lagos and shaped between Nigeria and the United Kingdom from a young age, her perspective is one of layered identity, where heritage and modernity are not in conflict but in continuous dialogue.

In the hands of Lafalaise Dion, the humble cowrie shell transcends ornamentation and becomes something altogether more profound. It becomes memory, mythology, ancestry, and art. Through her eponymous label, the Abidjan-based designer, artist, performer, and former journalist has carved out a singular visual language that sits at the intersection of fashion, spirituality, and cultural preservation. Her creations do not merely adorn the body. They tell stories, invoke histories, and honour a lineage that stretches far beyond the present moment.

At Soweto Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2026, amidst the polished tailoring and high-glamour runway moments, Mbobo Movement brought something different to the conversation. The collection felt rooted in memory and community, shaped through distressed denim, patchworked textures and vibrant African prints that carried the spirit of township culture into a contemporary fashion space. Rather than chasing spectacle, Luthando Mbobo focused on storytelling, presenting garments that felt lived in, personal and emotionally connected to the people who inspired them.

There is something incredibly cinematic about the world Sanele Thabethe is building with HOSS BY SASS. The silhouettes are dramatic, the glamour is intentional, and every look walks the line between polished luxury and unapologetic attitude. Think red-carpet fantasy, but make it fearless.

Written by Leonardo V

What if identity was not a fixed point, but a shifting landscape of colour, form, and feeling?

Multitude Identity steps into that question with the quiet intensity of a dream you don’t fully wake up from. It is an editorial that does not present the self as singular or resolved, but as something in constant motion, unfolding across imagined worlds.

Soweto Fashion Week (SFW) has wrapped its Autumn/Winter 2026 season following a vibrant three-day showcase at the Soweto Theatre in Jabulani, attracting a strong turnout across the three days.

H&M is proud to reveal all the looks in the upcoming Stella McCartney H&M collection. The collection will launch on 7 May, some 20 years after H&M’s first partnership with the acclaimed designer and campaigner. The first Stella McCartney H&M partnership – H&M’s second ever design collaboration – launched in November 2005.

The Met Gala has long been fashion’s most daring stage. A space where imagination takes form and couture becomes something closer to art than clothing. This year’s theme, “Fashion Is Art,” set the expectation for bold interpretation, theatrical silhouettes, and risk.

There is something quietly powerful about a comeback. Not loud, not desperate, but deliberate. That was the energy surrounding South African Fashion Week (SAFW) Spring/Summer 2026, a return that felt less like a reset and more like a reintroduction. And if fashion is anything, it is memory, identity, and reinvention stitched into fabric.

On 10 April 2026, The BAM Collective transformed the runway into something far more expansive than fashion. Staged within Fashion: The Image at the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography and the Inside Out Centre for the Arts, ROMANTICISM 2026 unfolded as a fully realised world, where texture, theatre and heightened emotion converged in a striking display of contemporary South African design.