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South African Fashion Week & Retail Giant Mr Price Launch Their Groundbreaking Scouting Menswear 2023 Competition 

 

Since its initiation in 2012, the Scouting Menswear Competition set out to select the best of the best within a large pool of young menswear design talent. It has raised the profile of emerging menswear designers, introduced them to media and buyers, as well as supported them in breaking through into the retail market.

Today expectations from young designers are high – they are required to produce a comprehensive collection within a few months, be active on social media, have a strong industry and media presence and simultaneously cope with the business of fashion.

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Thebe Magugu Illustrates Motherhood Through South Africa’s Diverse Heritage 

 

To celebrate the relaunch of their international website, fashion powerhouse Thebe Magugu announced a new limited-edition “Heritage Dress” collection featuring historic cultural illustrations by visual artist, Phathu Nembwili. A Mzansi original, the capsule features nine dresses that bear a painting that illustrates each South African culture – namely Xhosa, Zulu, Pedi, Vhavenda, Tswana, Tsonga, Basotho, and the Swati. The dresses are envisioned on a free-flowing crepe Bohemia-style dress with bishop sleeves and a foulard neckline.

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COVER: Supermodel Mitchell Akat taking up space for the next African child

While for many walking on international runways is to satisfy the thirst for international stardom, pursuing the glamorous status that models such as Noami Campbell, Tyra Banks and Kendell Jenner have amassed, Mitchell Akat, on the other hand, is walking for liberation.  The 20-year-old, who hails from the extremely cultural and religious South-Sudan, hopes with every walk and pose that…

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The Retrospective Rise of Modest Fashion 

 

With fashion being cyclical by nature, it is inevitable for most rejected or obsolete trends to make their way back into the cycle at some point. This is true modest fashion. From grunge-inspired outfits to workwear to layered designer looks, modest fashion is broadening thanks to social media. Luckily, the resurgence of the trend is about fashion and style than it is about infringing women’s autonomy.

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Adidas & Rich Mnisi Unveil An Ultra-modern Collection For Pride 2023 

 

Today, Adidas announced its latest collaboration with South African, queer designer Rich Mnisi with a unique collection and campaign for Pride 2023; Let Love Be Your Legacy. With a shared ambition to encourage allyship and freedom of expression without bias, in all spaces of sport and culture, the Adidas x RICH MNISI range of apparel and footwear spans both lifestyle and performance featuring signature silhouettes across Adidas Originals, football, cycling, Sportswear and swim.

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Natural Hair Tips to Keep Your Curls Dazzling This Winter

Natural Hair Tips to Keep Your Curls Dazzling This Winter

There may be many things to appreciate about winter, but for your natural hair, the dry air and harsh winds usually lead to lifeless curls. Cold weather takes a toll on your hair and scalp, making it lose a ton of moisture and leaving it dry and dull. Not to mention how the low humidity weakens your hair and makes it susceptible to breakage.

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All the Cool Kids Are Wearing Statement Jackets

As seen on various runways during fashion month, untraditional textured jackets that designers such as Bottega Veneta and Versace included in their Spring/Summer ‘23 collections are the ultimate combination of fun and function this year. Whether you’re opting for a bold colour or avant-garde shape, we encourage you to be daring and bold – think various textures, silhouettes, colours, and materials in your outerwear selection. ‘Tis the season, after all.

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Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags

Written by  Amy X. Wang

First seen on  The New York Times

 

Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it’s turning luxury fashion upside down.

 

Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship. The vessel was preserved by Athenian citizens, who continually replaced its rotting planks with strong, fresh timber so a pilgrimage to Delos could be made each year in their hero’s name. Fascinated by this mythical tale, the philosopher Plutarch found it to embody a “logical question of things that grow”: After Theseus’s ship had been stripped of all its original material, could it still be considered the same ship? His question has caromed through centuries of Western thought. What if, Thomas Hobbes wondered, someone rustled up a second boat out of the discarded planks; would you now have two original vessels? And what about our own era of machine-made duplication — does replication strip away the soul of creation?

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From Timeless Haute Couture to Modish High Fashion – A Look into Met Gala’s Star-studded Red-Carpet Fashion

After weeks of guest list predictions on social media, the highly anticipated 2023 Met Gala red carpet finally took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Unlike in previous years, the main attraction of the prestigious event was not a brand, a fashion era, or a concept, but rather, a person: Karl Lagerfeld. Under the theme…

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