Water-Cooler Chit Chat Vol. 3
Let’s take a dip in the cooling waters of Fashunn
How much fun is this? What’s happened this month that I want to talk about? I actually started writing this earlier than usual because I didn’t want to forget stuff.
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MUSIC MAKES THE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER
I am a white woman okay. Hear me out. I think that Troye Sivan is coming to save pop. Well he came and did that. The roll out for this new era has been scrumptious and baby, how is your first time in drags in Versace? You did that. Also, a special shout out to Taylor Swift for the 1989 re-record (I wish you would and I know places stans won)
Aart Verrips goes GLOBAL
Ms Aart Verips had a fantastic month. She debut some ART in a 2023 collaboration with the Now Gallery in the UK. She then did the Lavazza Calender featuring ICON, Zulaikha Patel. I mean you ate that baby! Shoutout
Modelling Agencies Trafficking Girls
So we all read the bombshell Times article detailing how top fashion agencies are being exploiting refugees and then leaving them in debt ALL IN THE GUISE OF “DIVERSITY.” Look, I know fashion is a parasitic and predatory industry and this is something that exists around the world. I just think that trying to find the next Adut and then throwing them to fend for the wolves when it doesn’t work out akin to colonisation. It’s disgusting.
SA Fashion Week
It happened. I think I needed to acknowledge its existence because I did actually attend and I did actually see some shows but I definitely want to shout out 2 menswear brands that really captivated me.
Nhlanhla Masemola has a clean look. The brand creates clothing inspired by African Subcultures and mixes unconventional tailoring. The clothes are elevated. It’s sublime to watch something the fits into the landscape in a fresh and new way that is almost timeless.
Musawenkosi is a tailor atelier style studio. The collection presented was titled Valerie which looked at Tennis as a vehicle for the “sportswear” segment of their brand. It’s incredible to see such exciting and refined ideas go down the runway reminiscent of Sophiatown fashion.
The poverty of creativity to rely on “streetwear” and “sports” for a menswear com petition never ceases to amaze me. In a time where South African menswear is severely behind the global rise of menswear, the idea of choosing something so banal when the needle has moved past that is… reductive. I literally am just going to list a few brands who I want you to think about their menswear and tell me the if I am wrong.
Martine Rose
Grace Wales Bonner
Rick Owens
KidSuper
Junya Watanabe
Kiko Kostadinov
Loewe
Givenchy
Louis Vuitton
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