Retail Galleries

The 23rd South African Council of Shopping Centres' Annual Congress (SACSC) took place from 16 to 18 October 2019 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Over 1,300 delegates gathered for the three-day event to learn from a host of local and international speakers how the retail industry is transforming. Read more on the event here.

The Darling Hair Exceptional Woman Awards took place at Fairlawns Boutique and Spa in Sandton on Saturday, 19 October 2019.

The 2019 Galliova Awards was held at the Tokara Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. The awards honour the country's most outstanding food writers for their excellence in food writing, styling and the overall promotion of SA's food culture and local health writers for their writing excellence and balanced reporting on health and nutrition issues.

In recognition of National Marine Week this October, over 80 adidas staff members and friends of the brand cleaned up the Black River in Cape Town.

On Friday, 11 October, 2019, Cape Town South Africa hosted the first-ever New York Runway ZA, featuring a collective of designers fresh off the New York Fashion Week Runway.

A Memi Jewellery retail store launched in Canal Walk Shopping Centre on 2 October. Each guest at the launch received a gift card and a personalised sterling silver Motif Disc necklace. The store offers Memi's full range of collections across 9kt yellow gold, white gold, rose gold and sterling silver.

Diesel hosted an event at Fourways Mall, Johannesburg on 19 September to celebrate the launch of its new D4D concept store and the 'Enjoy Before Returning' campaign. The store is a new retail experience revolved around flexibility. Its design is hyper-dynamic and adjustable, unbound to the structural ramifications and expectations of the location. The Enjoy Before Returning campaign is a playful, nonconformist stance on the controversial topic of Wardrobing, which is defined as the practice of purchasing an item, using it, and then returning it to the store for a refund....

The first Cape Town edition of Pantone Sundays took place in Bree Street. Pantone Sundays is a colour-themed party hosted by Nandi Dlepu in partnership with Skyy Vodka.

The OPIHR Gin Global Cocktail Competition Finale for South Africa took place at Gorgeous George Hotel on Tuesday 20 August 2019.

David Tlale and Tastic Rice hosted an exclusive lunch at Le Chatelat in Sandhurst to celebrate the historic movement that made 9 August Women's Day. Both parties invited phenomenal women from all walks of life to share their inspirational journeys. TV host Lalla Hirayama and celebrity chefs Ndash and Chef Nti all attended with their mothers. Other guests such as TV personalities Mbali Nkosi, Khanyi Mbau and musician Brenda Mtambo also attended the event in celebration of Women's Day. See images of the lunch below....

The packaging of Orbit Gum's product range is now more sustainable and recyclable. The company's shift to more environmentally-friendly packaging falls in line Mars Incorporated's Sustainability in a Generation strategy. To create awareness around the new packaging, Orbit has also launched the Pledge to Plant campaign under the banner #JustOneThing. To create additional awareness around the campaign, Orbit has partnered with the University of Johannesburg art students to create an art installation. To read more about Orbit's new sustainable packaging, click...

Yamamay opened its first South African flagship store at Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria on 24 July 2019. In attendance at the launch event were Pareto Group executives, media and celebrity personalities, and the first secretary in the office of the ambassador of Italy, Stefano Ligrone. To find out more about the store and the Italian brand, click here....

Adidas and Orlando Pirates Football Club gave back on Mandela Day by learning about the importance of adopting sustainable practices and by creating EcoBricks using non-recyclable plastic waste.

The 6 th annual Bokeh South African International Lifestyle & Fashion Film Festival Gala Awards took place this past weekend, 13 July at the V & A Waterfront in Cape Town.

South African designers Laduma Ngxokolo of Maxhosa Africa, Rina Chunga Kutuma of Ri.ch Factory and Sindiso Khumalo (of namesake label) brought Afrofuturistic elegance to their runway collections presented at the Vodacom VIP Paddock on Saturday.