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.
Abena Bambi has not posted an image that misreads her audience in years, and that consistency is precisely what makes the next stage of her career worth examining closely. Every campaign has been polished, legible, and recognisably feminine, built around a visual grammar that rarely strays far from the one she established when she started. The travel, the hair, the tennis looks, and the soft-life staging have meanwhile become some of the most efficiently constructed lifestyle content coming out of Accra, and the distance between the ease she performs and the discipline required to produce it is the most revealing thing happening around her right now.
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.
Venus Williams has spent most of her life being watched in motion. On a tennis court, every step has consequence, where you stand, how much space you leave, the angle of your body, the distance between yourself and the person across the net. It is a life built around reading space before anyone else does. So perhaps it makes sense that, away from the court, Williams became obsessed with another kind of spatial intelligence. She founded V Starr Interiors in 2002, turning an instinct for proportion, atmosphere and movement into a design practice. Now, with her first furniture and décor collection for Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids, she is taking that relationship with space somewhere more intimate, into the home.
After two decades of hits, reinvention and resilience, K.O reflects on the man he has become, the lessons that shaped him and the legacy he still wants to build.
Twenty years of K.O have given us 20 summers of great hits—a culture that the young K.O could never have foreseen. Over those two decades, the talented muso has created a time capsule of music that resonates with us at different moments in our lives, whether good or bad. His songs have become part of our stories, even as he continues to tell his own.
Television’s significant night was always going to be about the shows, the performances and the trophies, but by the time the stars reached the blue carpet at the 78th Emmy Awards, the conversation had already shifted. Fashion had its own ceremony to conduct. Los Angeles became a moving catalogue of couture, sharp tailoring, polished beauty and carefully engineered silhouettes, with celebrities arriving at the Peacock Theater looking less like attendees and more like characters entering another world. The carpet was not particularly interested in excess for excess’s sake. Instead, it revealed a growing appetite for clothes that understood the value of restraint, construction and presence.
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.
The NYFW is in full effect, and somewhere between the established houses and the season’s familiar names, Kai Cenat has made a particularly interesting entrance. Not as a streamer who happens to have a clothing line, but as a creative willing to step away from the thing that made him famous and see what else he could become. At Cipriani in Lower Manhattan, VIVET presented its Spring Summer 2027 debut as a three-act study of evolution, moving through menswear, womenswear, footwear and leather goods. The significance was less about a celebrity entering fashion than it was about watching a creator translate an identity built on the internet into something physical, tactile and deliberately made.
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.
Fashion has always been more than what we wear. At its most compelling, it becomes a language through which identity, memory and culture can be expressed. For South African jazz legend Selaelo Selota, that idea forms the foundation of THRRR…PHAAA!, a new African street-luxury label translating his artistic world into fashion.