Picture Credit score South Africa Vogue Week
Johannesburg, the ‘Metropolis of Gold’ was but once more host to the extremely anticipated bi-annual South Africa Vogue Week in April, per week that exploded with sensational fashion and glamour, in a metropolis that’s as well-known for its extraordinary fashion and pizzazz as it’s for its copious gold reserves.
As ever, fearless designs have been noticed throughout the spectrum. As have been iconic patterning, luxe materials, daring colour-blocking, impressed equipment, and forward-looking hair and make-up traits.
As for color traits, one can be arduous pushed to single out a particular seasonal shade! In reality nearly each color underneath the solar was represented within the collections, together with a couple of well-behaved monochromatic white-and-black colourways.
Designs assorted from avant-garde creations (just like the well-known Viviers assortment sizzling off the Milan Vogue Week runway) to modern swimwear and seashore collections (just like the tremendous glamorous assortment by Miami Swim Week model Beachcult), from the Basotho-inpired Pan-African assortment by stalwart South African designer Thabo Makhetha to infinitely wearable wardrobe basic at Helon Melon and Black Espresso.
In a rustic the place there aren’t any fewer than 12 separate trend weeks twice a 12 months, the unique, the long-lasting, South Africa Vogue Week stays a basic spotlight on the style calendar, and one which not solely goes out of its method to give a platform to thrilling new expertise, but additionally pays tribute to designers who, over the many years, have turn into synonymous with unassailably glorious South African design.
We invite you to sit down again and luxuriate in these dreamy creations! Be a part of us for a titillating sensory expertise underneath the brilliant African solar.
BEHIND THE SCENES…
Why not kick off proceedings with a sneak peek on the hustle and bustle behind the scenes? … With designers placing closing touches to clothes and fashions, hair and sweetness specialists working their magic, stay musicians including to the ambiance, paparazzi, photographers and glamorous front-row fashionistas and celebrities all including to the attract and loopy power that’s Vogue Week…
THE DESIGNERS
NGINGU
@motherofgao
Extraordinary patterning, impressed use of color and avant-garde asymmetry that includes daring cut-outs are the hallmarks of this hanging assortment by this tremendous proficient Johannesburg designer.
CYLA GONSOLVES
Award-winning designs that includes dreamy, languid day attire, easy layering and modern basic blouses within the subtlest of ‘soiled’ pastels got here from the stables of this Cape City-based design home.
BELHAUZEN
@belhauzen
Daring and cheery fashion components mix to provide a feisty – and festive – assortment that makes one bounce for pleasure! Who can resist these carnival vibes?
HERU SHEZI
This vibrant assortment has the versatile qualities to take one to work and leisure… Type it up or down, add or subtract layers. No matter you do, you received’t go unnoticed.
JAMES PRESENTS
@james.presents
Says the designer, “having the ability to take cloth and switch it into one thing wearable, which positively impacts one’s self-perception, is the rationale why we love the transformative nature of trend.” We completely agree, these creations!
ODDITY
@o_ddity
A model that prides itself on its upcycling and recycling credentials utilises knits, patchwork, gingham, denim and plaid to look tremendous contemporary and brand-spanking new.
REINA MAJOKO
@reina_exclusiv
Trendy mermaids in daring royal blue and coral purple, this assortment is greater than only a set of hanging designs, it attracts consideration to the plight of girls in society.
FIKILE SOKHULU
@sokhulufikile
A designer who has made a considerable mark on the South African trend scene since her participation within the Italian Vogue Bridge programme, Fikile Sokhulu’s structured and formal strategy to design is clear in her impressed SS 2024 vary with its sculptural sleeve silhouettes.
IMPRINT
@imprint_za
This luxurious South African model recognized for his or her magical patterns and glamorous shapes, wowed us with their sunray—pleated chiffon skirts, belted co-ords and marabou-frill collars. It’s cheery, tremendous subtle – and ultra-wearable.
MICHAEL LUDWIG STUDIOS
@michaelludwigstudio
Gender-fluid, sensual and chic, Michael Ludwig Studios’ assortment oozed unadulterated glamour. The regal purple cut-out robe with its frilly particulars merely is a imaginative and prescient!
THABO MAKHETHA
www.thabomakhetha.com
A designer who’s well-known for her iconic designs utilizing conventional Basotho blankets as textiles, Thabo Makhetha developed intricate leatherwork prints primarily based on conventional designs for her SS assortment. This beautiful assortment is an excellent tribute to modern African fashion, with items that may be layered, added and subtracted to permit large versatility.
THE BAM COLLECTIVE
@bamcollective
Primarily based on kinetic artwork, in accordance with the designer this assortment is a metaphor for development and the methods wherein we discover and develop as we transfer by way of life. We like how the basic silhouettes have included the wavy, cell shapes.
BLACK COFFEE
@blackcoffeefashionza
Black Espresso’s signature avant-garde designs focussed on the artwork of pleating for this assortment, and the exploration of the standard basic pleat is certainly a feat within the palms of designer Jacques van der Walt. We love the silhouettes in addition to the therapy of the textiles that make up the impressed shapes.
FRANC ELIS
@franc_elis
This heavyweight Johannesburg-based menswear designer wants no introduction; this assortment but once more is a symphony of gorgeous shades, elegant silhouettes and high quality cloth and workmanship.
MUNKUS
@munkus_
With kaleidoscopic color and daring accessorizing, each garment tells a narrative!
ANDREADAMO
The place gorgeous Italian design meets South African craftsmanship! We love the sheer gossamer bodysuits paired with softest fake fur for a glance of sheer luxe.
VIVIERS
@viviers.studio
A Johannesburg-based collective that has been displaying its breath-taking gender-fluid avant-garde collections at trend weeks all around the world, Viviers is thought for its consideration to element, equipment and jewelry and hanging silhouettes.
HELON MELON
@helonmelonct
A Cape City-based designer who wants no introduction, Helen Gibbs produces tremendous styish feel-good collections every season. We like the pleasing subtleness of the shades of this SS assortment.
EPHYMOL
@ephymol
We completely adore the inexperienced spectrum that dominates Ephymol’s SS assortment! Textured, simple to put on and tremendous elegant, this streetwear assortment with a touch of classic is memorable and complex on the similar time. We’re arduous pressed to assume the place this assortment will NOT take one.
RUBICON
@rubiconclothing
This vary by multi-award-winning designer Hangwani Nengovhela oozes refined African grandeur. The robes are epic of their shapes and shades, and each design is just a must have piece for one’s wish-list!
ISABEL DE VILLIERS
@isabeldevilliersclothing
Isabel de Villiers’ garments are designed for ladies of all shapes, and flatter ladies’s our bodies like few different manufacturers handle to do. We like the tactile natural shapes on the items in addition to the pink and purple mixtures contrasted with silver, on this assortment.
GUGUBYGUGU
@gugubygugu
This luxurious menswear assortment is aptly entitled “Manufactured, not made” and provides a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes strategy of garment manufacture. We like the lavender shades in addition to the logoed items – all very covetable!
BEACHCULT
@beachcult
This luxurious swimwear model by Joanna Hedley is designed “for gypsetters and nomads who carry the ocean repeatedly of their hearts.”
HEART & HERITAGE
Johannesburg-based designer Lesley Kellerman’s vary is a fantastic fusion of that place the place science fiction and actuality meet.
MINA
@mina_by_sa
Focussed on low-waste and sustainability, this Mozambiquan designer’s assortment is fluid and easy to put on, regardless of the event.
EZOKHETHO
@ezoketho
Ezoketho makes stunning garments for contemporary African ladies with out compromising consolation or high quality. We merely adore this vary with its quirky head items and stripes!
E MANIA
@elitemonomania
This assortment with its fiery purple and cherry purple mixtures, sizzle! It symbolises richness and keenness, and a sure resilience that’s attribute of the African continent.
SANIA BACAR
@sava____bacar
Mozambiquan designer Sania Bacar’s assortment with its denim, wavy royal blue prints and turquoise patterning is a tapestry of African shades and inspiration.
LEON VON SOLMS
@leonmadeby
Cape City primarily based designer Leon von Solms’s assortment of hand-painted attire are wearable artwork piece, in reality. Fantastically accessorised, these are for the girl who’s certain to make an impression wherever she goes!
OMAR
@omarAdelino.dosanjos.
Sensual design that’s basic and chic are the hallmarks of this designer from Maputo. We like the one-sleeved floor-sweeping black robe.
SUN GODDESS
@sungoddessafrolux
This vary is actually impressed by the African solar, the giver of life, therapeutic and vitality. Every of the items on this assortment is joyous, the colors reflective of the life-giving pressure of the solar.
GOODBYE FROM A SUNNY SOUTH AFRICA FASHION WEEK!
