Fashion and Beauty

Media personality Minnie Dlamini is bringing heat to this Summer as the new face of global fashion brand Ipanema. Dlamini has partnered with the brand for their SS21 campaign ‘Summer Belongs to Ipanema’ launching this month. Ipanema is a 100% recyclable Vegan brand inspired by Brazilian beach culture.  It’s fun, chic and colourful collections are all about the happy and exotic spirit of summer The Spring/Summer collection has a variety of styles that include bright colours and attractive styles that are both exotic and bold just in time for a perfect South African summer.  “It’s been a while since Ipanema SA partnered with an ambassador, so we wanted to launch our latest Summer campaign with someone who not only represents the ethos of the brand, but someone who actually lives the brand. Minnie Dlamini was such an obvious choice for us. As a young powerhouse media personality who grew in…

In the business of fashion, creativity is what will see you through.  South African Fashion Week (SAFW) has always known just how to break the fashion boundaries and expand its designers through strong partnerships and networks. Their most  recent partnership with the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Polimoda, Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana, Lineapelle, and the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), with the support of Nelson Mandela Forum Firenze has launched ‘Fashion Bridges – I Ponti della Moda’ project. This innovative, ambitious project aims at laying the foundations of a sustainable, inclusive, strategic, long-term cooperation between the Italian and South African fashion industries. The project is structured on three pillars, the first being ‘Cradle of Fashion’.  Through the establishment of an academic cooperation between some of the most prominent and more internationally renowned fashion schools and entities in Italy and in South Africa, Cradle…