Mall of Africa is the new host of SA Fashion Week and has also welcomed the opening of Koop Studio, a new retail hub that showcases the work of local fashion designers. Koop Studio is a collaborative venture between Sandy Rogers and Lucilla Booyzen...
15 Sep 2020
Ackermans has extended its sizing across all women's product lines to offer up to size 50...
14 Sep 2020
With the ever-growing influence of, well, influencers on consumers, retailers are increasingly looking for ways to tap into their power...
26 Nov 2019
Diesel has collaborated with Coca-Cola to introduce a capsule collection incorporating recycled materials...
22 Oct 2019
The South African Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2020 Collections and Trade Show will be held at the Protea Court Rooftop of Sandton City in Johannesburg from 23 to 26 October 2019...
4 Oct 2019
Mozambican fashion designer Eliana Rodrigues Murargy's 'Basking in the Osun River' collection debuted on the runway at New York Fashion Week this month...
16 Sep 2019
South African talent Thebe Magugu, 26, is the winner of the 2019 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Magugu is the first designer from Africa to scoop the coveted award...
5 Sep 2019
Philip Green's Arcadia retail empire lives to sell another day. After a week's delay and five hours of discussions, Arcadia's creditors agreed to a CVA that involves rent cuts, 23 store closures and 520 job losses...
Nelson Blackley 28 Jun 2019
Polly Walters from WGSN recently outlined some of the trends the company has been tracking for womenswear in the lead up to spring/summer 2020...
Maroefah Smith 26 Jun 2019
Figure Forms is the number 1 technical and fit mannequin supplier in the Southern Hemisphere...
Meagan Duckitt 24 Jun 2019
Coca-Cola has teamed up with four local fashion designers to create a quartet of signature collections influenced by South African experiences and the beverage brand's iconic design elements...
5 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018
Just over a month after its merger with Spree, Superbalist says the platform migration went ahead with no major glitches. The merger of two of South Africa's most prominent online fashion retailers...
15 Nov 2018
Cartoons, shiny metallics, over-the-top accessories and statement-making prints are what characterise the much anticipated Moschino x H&M collection...
12 Oct 2018
Trend forecaster WGSN reckons womenswear for spring/summer 2019 will lean towards a reclaiming of power dressing in a sassier, sexier aesthetic with an inclination for the '80s and '00s nostalgia...
Maroefah Smith 2 Jul 2018
Source Africa 2018 will open its doors at the CTICC on 21 June for a 2-day exhibition with free-to-attend seminar sessions aimed at the continent's textile, apparel and footwear sector...
4 Jun 2018
TFG has reported that group turnover rose 21.4% to R28.6bn in the year ended March, while headline earnings were up 9.6% at R2.5bn...
25 May 2018
Now we find ourselves nearly drawing pensions and thinking what? What now? Put a cardigan on and grey shoes? Is there an age when you think: 'Oh, I can't possibly be involved in fashion now?
Ania Sadkowska and Katherine Townsend 19 Apr 2018
African fashion is seeing growing recognition abroad, and menswear, in particular, has become bolder, more expressive and less restricted by social norms...
Lauren Hartzenberg 26 Feb 2018
Retail group TFG - whose brands include Foschini, Markham and @home - enjoyed Christmas sales in 2017 that were 31% higher than the previous year's...
Robert Laing 18 Jan 2018
Fast fashion online retailer, Superbalist, has reported that Black Friday 2017 has gone down in history as its biggest trading day so far...
29 Nov 2017
Clothing retailers Truworths and The Foschini Group (TFG) have long been mainstays of the domestic fashion scene...
20 Nov 2017
Suiting and tailoring brand Fabiani, established as an exclusively menswear label for nearly forty years, has broadened its focus to include women's fashion...
16 Nov 2017
More than a third of TFG's revenue will come from outside Africa in the next financial year after the group integrates the Hobbs clothing retail business in the UK, says chief financial officer Anthony Thnstrom...
8 Nov 2017
TFG today announced the acquisition of contemporary British womenswear brand Hobbs...
7 Nov 2017
Suiting and tailoring brand Fabiani extended their range to womenswear with their first Fabiani Women flagship store in Canal Walk, Cape Town on 2 November 2017.
3 Nov 2017
The second edition of the Design Market, a seasonal event to showcase contemporary design in Africa, will open its doors on November 4th and 5th in Accra, Ghana...
1 Nov 2017
South African Fashion Week (SAFW) will be showcasing 53 2018 autumn/winter collections at the Sandton City Rooftop in Johannesburg on 24 October 2017.
Ruth Cooper 17 Oct 2017
Canal Walk Shopping Centre is refreshing its retail mix with new flagship stores including a two-level H&M ...
1 Sep 2017
African Fashion International (AFI) held its Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the Mall of Africa, from 17-19 August, to launch its Spring/Summer ‘17 collections on the runway, putting African excellence under the international spotlight.
28 Aug 2017
An unsuspecting audience were surprised at the launch of the Fabiani SS17 collection at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg, as women stepped out onto the runway instead of men...
22 Aug 2017
An unsuspecting audience was blown away by a dramatic twist at the launch of the Fabiani SS17 collection at the 2017 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg last night, as women stepped out onto the runway instead of men, marking the launch of Fabiani Womenswear.
21 Aug 2017
TFG, the retailer that owns Foschini, @Home and Totalsports is in talks to acquire British womenswear brand Hobbs, a UK press report says.
7 Jul 2017
South Africa is the up and coming new fashion destination with its brilliant designers and labels churning out amazing clothes and making their way to the biggest fashion weeks all over the world...
Stephen Marshal 22 May 2017
WGSN, a London trend forecasting company for fashion, unveils four key trends of African design in 2017 and 2018...
25 Apr 2017
With even the darling of the retail sector now showing weakness, prospects for trading this year look bleak...
Stafford Thomas 20 Jan 2017
LONDON - Men and women are sashaying down catwalks together at London Fashion Week, in a shake-up of tradition backed by celebrated designers including Vivienne Westwood...
10 Jan 2017
LONDON - Fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled her first menswear collection on Thursday at London's famous Abbey Road recording studio, where she promised men a more free and fun wardrobe...
14 Nov 2016
The second Winelands Chocolate Festival will take place at Blaauwklippen Wine Estate, Stellenbosch on 20 and 21 August, 2016.
30 Mar 2016
The new aquarium in the V&A Waterfront is to host the annual Mercedes-Benz Bokeh South African International Fashion Film Festival, between 21 and 23 April, 2016.
4 Mar 2016
Shares in upmarket retailer Woolworths (Woolies), the darling of the JSE's consumer sector, were shredded yesterday, with nervous investors fretting over less compelling prospects for the financial year ahead...
Marc Hasenfuss 12 Feb 2016
ROME - Dolce and Gabbana, designers best known for womenswear inspired by the sultry sensualism of southern Italy, are attacking the booming middle Eastern market for high fashion with a collection of abayas and hijabs...
11 Jan 2016
The international brand Mango can now be delivered around SA from Spree, the online fashion retailer...
26 Oct 2015
PARIS - Dior declared summer 2016 the season of "bourgeois cool" at Paris men's fashion week on Saturday, while Balmain decked out its models as old-fashioned adventurers...
29 Jun 2015
PARIS: Men's fashion takes centre-stage in Paris for five days from Wednesday, with Balmain's first menswear show among the highlights on a packed schedule...
24 Jun 2015
CANNES, FRANCE: Cannes Lions has named the judges for 2015 and these are its most diverse juries ever: more women, more areas of expertise and more countries represented, with 309 senior industry professionals from 44 countries...
30 Mar 2015
Ahead of Wool Week Cape Town 2015, taking place at the V&A Waterfront from 7-12 April 2015, Woolmark has published its new seasonal guide and trend book Wool Lab predicting the themes for Autumn/Winter 15/16...
25 Feb 2015
The partnership between Style Africa Fashion Network and Indonesia Fashion Week 2015 creates a doorway through which South African designers will have the opportunity to walk the Indonesia Fashion Week runway in 2016...
17 Feb 2015
On Thursday, 18th September 2014, Men's Health hosted the hottest fashion show of the summer with its annual Menswear Collection, presented by Dunhill Desire Black, at Shine Studios in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
22 Sep 2014
Next, a UK brand established in 1982, has partnered with Spree.co.za, part of Naspers' e-commerce division. This will enable the South African website to offer selected items from the UK range.
27 Aug 2014