Combining the skills of SA fashion entrepreneur Paul Simon with the e-commerce skills of the Fontera Digital's Skunk Works team, &Threads is an online fashion boutique that aims to provide the SA market with direct access to the growing talent of young fashion designers and a retail solution for the designers themselves, who get an easier route to market that sidesteps the traditional 'buyer - seller' dynamic and the extensive costs of going it alone. 20 Jul 2015
Roberto Cavalli has joined forces with Primedia Unlimited's Fashion Media to create awareness and increase sales of its Paradiso eau de parfum by dominating Edgars and Red Square stores nationwide... 14 Jul 2015
If you want to crack a classic retro look, consider going to a vintage auction, where you'll often find one-of-a-kind pieces from top designers. Buying into the trend, auction house Stephan Welz & Co launches a vintage fashion department today with a sale of covetable pieces... 10 Jul 2015
Some of South Africa's most promising new designers will reveal their Spring/Summer collections at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town, which will be held from 30 July to 1 August 2015 at the V&A Waterfront's Watershed and North Wharf... 9 Jul 2015
Thousands of African National Congress (ANC) T-shirts retrieved from members in Mpumalanga's Nkangala region have been set alight for being "un-ANC"... 8 Jul 2015
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Photographer: Emmanuel Arewa
LAGOS - Take a sought-after architect, add the king of "new Africa cuisine" and a smattering of famous designers, and you get a concept-store in Lagos that seeks to bring modern African luxury to Nigeria's ultra-rich... 6 Jul 2015
NEW YORK - Phil Knight, who built Nike from a modest US shoe company into a global sports giant and marketing juggernaut, will step down as chairman next year, the company announced on Tuesday... 1 Jul 2015
NEWSWATCH: Sixty-six-year-old Donna Karan of high-end fashion brand Donna Karan International announced on Tuesday her decision to step down as chief designer, remaining as an advisor, but dedicating more time to her mass-market Urban Zen line and its Foundation. 1 Jul 2015
ROME - Award-winning graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, famed for his work with the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Aerosmith, says the concept of beauty in design is back... 29 Jun 2015
PARIS - Dior declared summer 2016 the season of "bourgeois cool" at Paris men's fashion week on Saturday, while Balmain decked out its models as old-fashioned adventurers... 29 Jun 2015
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town, has found a new home at The Watershed and North Wharf at the V&A Waterfront. The new venues will provide a fresh backdrop for South Africa's leading designers to showcase their Spring/Summer collections from 30 July to 1 August 2015... 26 Jun 2015
"The search for fashion's next rising star is on and the reward is the opportunity of a lifetime for a young designer seeking to make a mark in the fashion world in Africa and internationally," said Elle South Africa publisher Gisèle Wertheim Aymés... 25 Jun 2015
African Fashion International has announced that Mercedes-Benz has renewed its title sponsorship of Fashion Week for another three years and that it has also appointed Tribeca Public Relations to manage all media interactions leading up to, during, and after Mercedes-Benz Cape Town Fashion Week. 24 Jun 2015
French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing for Balmain acknowledges the public at the end of his 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on 25 September 2014 in Paris.
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PARIS: Men's fashion takes centre-stage in Paris for five days from Wednesday, with Balmain's first menswear show among the highlights on a packed schedule... 24 Jun 2015
US representatives at the Source Africa trade event last week were adamant local apparel manufacturers could sew up a viable patch of the growing US market... 22 Jun 2015
NEW YORK: Paris, Milan, New York and London may reign in world fashion, but Asian and South American cities are ones to watch, according to an exhibition at one of the world's best design schools... 18 Jun 2015
One of South Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs, Vanessa Gounden, has opened her first flagship store in London, making her the first South African designer to own and open a free-standing store in the UK... 17 Jun 2015
One of South Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs, Vanessa Gounden, has opened her first flagship store in London, making her the first South African designer to own and open a free-standing store in the UK... 17 Jun 2015
One of South Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs, Vanessa Gounden, has opened her first flagship store in London, making her the first South African designer to own and open a free-standing store in the UK... 17 Jun 2015
One of South Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs, Vanessa Gounden, has opened her first flagship store in London, making her the first South African designer to own and open a free-standing store in the UK... 17 Jun 2015
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