Guess..?

Come on chinaz. Let's see how well you know the fashion industry. Guess who's next on our Designer profiles.

Fast facts about the designer:

1. Vereeniging born.
2. Tshwane University of Technology graduate in fashion design.
3. Has interned with Clive Rundell and Monarchy Couture

Clue:  The guy is known to have bought himself a sewing machine while he was in Grade 8 with his own savings.

                                          Designer to be revealed tomorrow
Good luck

xoxo
@SiyaKade

Author's Letter

Hello fashionista

We are growing and growing fast.

As you can see in the statistic map our audience is starting to broaden to other countries and this is all thanks to people who share my posts on Google+, twitter, facebook and other social networks. Please to continue to support South African fashion by participating in this blog and letting other people know about it.

And dont forget that tomorrow will see the beginning of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa, here is what to expect: 

image extracted from www.afi.za.com

Until another designer profiling, good week and take care.

xoxo

@Siya_Kade

Designer Profile

Archibald Monyepao

Archie Monyepao

The fashion designer was born in Johannesburg, he attended the Tshwane University of Technology where he did design. Although his studios are in Pretoria he is based in East London where he relocated to in 2010 to join Walter Sisulu University's Fashion Design Department as a lecturer. 

He owns a brand named Monarchy Couture 

While the label has been around for longer, the official label launch was done in September 2012. The brand is all about making people realise the importance of appearance in many ways and Archie says his collections are centred around his mother as he draws inspiration from her.

This year he is showing off his collections at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa for the second year in a row. The Walter Sisulu University is proud of him and so am I.

Contacts:  MonarchyCouture@gmail.com

                Facebook: Mornarchy Couture

                     

                Tel: 012 386 0839 

Adress:  66 Inner Crescent Street Pretoria West

              Pretoria, South Africa

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xoxo

@Siya_Kade

Guess..? Reveal

That's right. Our designer profile guest is:  Archibald Monyepao of Mornachy Couture

                                                                   Up Next
                                                                         

Guess..?

Come on chinaz. Let's see how well you know the fashion industry. Guess who's next on our Designer profiles.

Fast facts about the designer:

1. He/she was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng and relocated to East London, Eastern Cape in 2010.
2. He/she is a lecturer at Walter Sisulu University.
3. He/she will be showing his designs at the Mercedes Benz Africa Fashion Week in Pretoria.

Clue: 'Kingdom' can be used in place of his label's name

he/she

                                                       Designer to be exposed on Friday

xoxo
@Siya_Kade

Author's Letter

Hello fashionista

My goal behind the creation of this blog is to inspire and captivate aspiring fashion designers and, on the way, those designers that are established. I believe my audience/follower is a fashion business fanatic or one that just loves the fashion industry and its counterparts.

Last week our blog has done incredibly well as we published our first designer inspiration: Ruald Rheeder

Page views went up to 247 with audiences in areas indicated in green on the map>>>

audience statistic map

As we go into a new week together I would like to see more people interacting and helping towards the growth of this blog. To ensure that growth I will publish weekly - an Author's Letter to help me see what you want from me, a Guess..? quiz to test your knowledge of the South African fashion industry, and a Designer Profile which will be the main feature.

Please help me have more people like you part of this blog by sharing the word with your friends, acquaintances, loved ones and those strangers that you just know love the fashion business. You can do that by making use of the share buttons on the bottom of each post.

If you would like me to feature on this blog anyone you know personally or someone who dresses your favourite celebrity  or just making waves in the fashion industry or yourself even, let me know via the comment box or join my circles on Google+  or here: Facebook - Siya Kade
                                                                                 Twitter: @Siya_Kade

Before I let you go, do not forget that African Fashion International is getting ready to host Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa at the city of Tshwane in Gauteng from 30 October - 02 November which is less than 2 weeks away so get your gears ready. Established South African fashion Designers like David Tlale, Thula Sindi and Marianne Fassler will be showcasing.

image courtesy of www.afi.za.com

I can't wait, can you?


xoxo
@Siya_Kade

Designer Profile

An inspiration to many: Ruald Rheeder

image extracted from www.rualdrheeder.co.za

A Cape Town based fashion designer mostly known for his menswear collections is first to fall under my inspirations in the short history of this blog.

After completing his tertiary studies in Cape Town he started his career designing for various labels and designers and then went on to launch his own signature line - Ruald Rheeder - which is available exclusively at  the Young Designers Emporium (YDE) countrywide (South Africa).

They provide custom couture designs and as the face of the menswear brand is Jonathan Boynton-Lee. In 2013 it has officialy launched the ladieswear collection in YDE stores countrywide having Leigh-Anne Williams as the face of the brand.

Jonathan Boynton-Lee

Leigh-Anne Williams

The brand has been a success as it has become one of the best selling men's labels in YDE and that has won Ruald the "Best New Designer" award recently after the line had launched and in 2012 "The most consistently excellent performing designer" award at the YDE awards.

Take note that the Ruald Rheeder Collection is shown annually at both the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town and the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Johannesburg

MBFWJ - www.rualdrheeder.co.za

Contact them here:

Website: www.rualdrheeder.co.za

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ruald-Rheeder/138359106280764

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rualdrheeder‎

E-mail: Ruald@rualdrheeder.co.za

Adress: 5 Hershel Walk
            Unit B, Mont Clair Terraces
            Claremont
            Cape Town 

Designer Profile

Kelly Davids - who co-owns Milq and Honey with her sister Gabriella Davids - is our darling for this week.



Kelly & Gabriella Davids at MBFWCT - image by Simon Deiner/SDR

While Gabriella is more focused on the beauty and health side of the brand, Kelly is the one behind the fashion, she is the inspiration behind the runway shows.

Their clothing label 

 Inspired by the shapes of natural surroundings, patterns, the energy colours - emerged in 2012 from  the then Milq and Honey brand and they have been turning heads since then. What I like the most about them is that proceedings from their fashion shows are given over to the Cancer Research Wing of the Groote Schuur Hospital.

They are a merge between fashion, beauty and health and are there to celebrate the beauty of women.

A year later they opened the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town with an edgy and ultra-chic collection:



   

Interact with them here:  



Website:  milqandhoney.co.za



Facebook:  Milq and Honey House of Fashion, Health and Beauty

Twitter:   @MilqandHoney 

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xoxo

@Siya_Kade

Guess..? Reveal

Thanks for the comments chinaz - although mostly done via my gmail inbox - next time you will know better ;-)

You all almost got it right: Our designer profile guest is indeed Kelly Davids of Milq and Honey

Up next

Guess...?

Come on chinaz. Let's see how well you know the fashion industry. Guess who's next on our designer profiles.

Fast facts about the designer:

1. The person together with their sister are often called the Kardashian sisters of South Africa.
2. The person is based in Cape Town.
3. The person's label is one of those that opened the Cape Town Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2013

Clue: Their brand name has two things that can be eaten.

image by Simon Deiner/SDR

Designer to be exposed tomorrow

xoxo

@Siya_Kade

Designer Profile

With his origins in Soweto, Gauteng and now relocated to Cape Town, this young man has taken the South African Fashion Design scene by storm.

Ernest Mahomane at MBFWCT'13 - image by Simon Deiner/SDR Photo

A University of Johannesburg Alumni, Ernest Mahomane is the person everyone is talking about this season after opening Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town  2013 with a banger collection of a combination of red on white dresses with exquisite detail resulting in a smooth and classy look.

image by Simon Deiner/SDR Photo

He achieved this with the experience gained from being mentored by Gavin Rajah, a world renoun fashion designer. Enerst's brand is one that will see the South African fashion design industry - and I will go even further to say Africa's - go big at international fashion weeks.

Interact with him here:

Twitter: @ErnestMahomane

Facebook: Ernest Mahomane