Fashioning Modern Africanism

The knitting of collaborative networks and the shaping of a sustainable fashion future for South Africa – these will be some of the most exhilarating trends to watch at South African Fashion Week (SAFW)’s Spring Summer 23 Collections at the Mall of Africa from 20 – 23 April 2023. Now in its 26th year, the country’s top fashion design platform, organized with the support of Mall of Africa, Mr. Price, Cruz Vodka, Oppo and Carlton Hair, the South African Fashion Week SS23 will host 11 shows over three days and show 39 collections. It will also host both a contingent of designers and models from neighbouring Mozambique Fashion Week as well as this year’s participants in the ground-breaking collaborative Italian/South African Fashion Bridges – I Ponti della Moda project. “Regional and intercontinental collaborations such as these, allow all parties to knit networks of beneficial mutual support. They allow us to share skills and insights, open unexplored business opportunities, and ultimatel

The countdown to the country’s most prestigious fashion gathering is almost upon us. With cutting edge fashion from over 27 talented South African designers taking to the runway, SA Fashion Week 2022 is set to launch in Johannesburg  this coming weekend. Kicking off SA Fashion Week celebrations, luxe vodka brand and official headline sponsor for the showcase, Cruz Vodka will host an exclusive opening party like no other, this Wednesday. As a prelude to the week of upcoming runway shows and fashion festivities, guests get to experience the  brand that is strongly rooted in New York provenance and is associated with the high-end fashion you would expect to see in the Big Apple. Runway shows will take place from Thursday 20 th   - Sunday 22 nd   October, with 3 days of incredible South African fashion being showcased to not only an eager SA audience but fashion enthusiasts  from around the world. SA Fashion Week will conclude with trade shows, taking place from 23 - 24 October in the Mall

Ecological sustainability, women’s empowerment, inter brand collaboration and proudly local production investment are some of the dynamic developments that mark SA Fashion Week’s 25th Spring/Summer Collections set to kick off on 28 April 2022. Twenty iconic names including Ephraim Molingoana for Ephymol, Amanda Laird Cherry and Palesa Mokubung of Mantsho as well as cult Kasi brand, Loxion Kulca, now designed by Olé Ledimo, will launch their 2022 collections to the media, buyers, selected VIP’s and a limited edition of public tickets through Quicket, alongside exciting new stars including 2021 New Talent winner Artho Eksteen as well as Fikile Zamagcino Sokhulu and Sipho Mbuto who both participated in the Fashion Bridges collaboration with Milan Fashion Week last year. Hosted by SA’s favourite social personality, Maps Maponyane, the 24th New Talent Search will again open the event with a line-up of six of the most promising young designers to watch. This year’s contenders are: • Thando N

BE YOU  with African Fashion International (AFI) this summer. This fashion showcase of an African utopia is taking place on  29 – 30 October 2021  at  the recently launched  Alto 234  – Africa’s highest Urban Bar on the 57 th  floor at the Leonardo building in Sandton. This hybrid experience of fashion and self-expression is dedicated to the creative that lives within us all.   The theme  BE YOU, BE TRULY AFRICAN  celebrates all the unique and multifaceted expressions of being African in a globalised world. In coming together, after a long period of isolation, we are presenting a  renewed  outlook on who we are and what makes us unique.  Driven  by lifestyle and fashion, the emerging and established designers will showcase their latest collections, having  reimagined  new trends to complement the new way of living.   Growing on the success of last year’s event, AFI will again partner with Anglo American Platinum to showcase this year’s PlatAfrica Jewellery Design & Manufacture Comp