“After graduating from LISOF in 2000, Roman Handt freelanced as a designer for various Johannesburg based companies. He then travelled to Belgium and received much valuable work experience as a freelancer until he returned to Johannesburg in 2007 and started working on opening his new, eponymous label, which was founded in 2011. His objective is …
“After matriculating, Rachel de Mardt went to study at the renowned Parsons School of Design in New York, USA. During which time she really developed her own sense of design style and started creating classic, sophisticated and glamorous garments. She reaches out to the confident woman who has a sense of appreciation for high-end fashion …
“•Born and named after her great grandmother ‘Elizabeth Loye” who was a singer and performer throughout her life, Liz ‘Loye’ Ogumbo began singing at about age four. Her father taught her songs from the Luo tribe in Kenya, her home language and sooner than later, she was singing “Isabella ma nyar Asembo,” “I be lady …
“Black Coffee consistently gives local fashion a distinctive face with its deeply referential, meticulously engineered and ultimately divergent approach. Designer Jacques van der Watt’s design ethos embraces contrast and re-shapes traditions with an intuitive twist. The result is mysteriously familiar yet refreshingly unique occupying a space somewhere between history and imagination. Black Coffee received the …
“Ghanaian fashion house JIL showcases with lot’s of Kente at the Arise Magazine Fashion Week 2012 in Lagos. Music: One Ghana for your Pocket ft. E.L. Photography: Guud Kelly Producer: Fashionista Gh Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary …
It’s modern, chic and African-inspired. For us, this spells one thing, BRILLIANT. Enjoy RUE 114’s latest fashion film, “And God Created Woman” translated in french to mean “Et Dieu Créa La Femme.” We say, bien sûr!(but of course!) “Great style should be available in all sizes because fabulous, fierce, kick-ass women come in all sizes- Serwah …