Kirsten Sims is an illustrator based in Stellenbosch painting charming scenes in which her signature, long-limbed, offbeat characters go swimming, visit a circus, site-see or throw lavish dinner parties and picnics that you wish you could attend. Recently Kirsten collaborated with Anthropologie on an illustrated...
Anisa Mpungwe is the Tanzanian-born, Johannesburg-based fashion designer behind her own label Loin Cloth & Ashes, created to give women an alternative to the Little Black Dress. The proudly African womenswear brand was established after Anisa was announced the winner of the ELLE New Talent...
Zanele Kumalo is the current Content Editor at The Publishing Partnership, a company producing engaging content for targeted audiences across both print and digital platforms. Her previous experience reads like a list of publishing dream jobs, having worked as a Features Editor at Marie Claire...
Chef Vanessa Marx is the co-creator of Cape Town restaurant Dear Me, The White Room one level up, and top floor bar Tjing Tjing. After graduating at the Institute of Culinary Arts in the Cape Winelands Vanessa apprenticed with Pete Goffe-Wood, who you'll know from...
At just twenty two years old Vuyiswa Mutshekwane, or Vie for short, opened Joburg based fashion boutique TwentyTwo stocking up and coming South African design labels and vintage pieces that were difficult to find anywhere else. Her monthly 'Fashion Fridays' at the store were her...
South African actress Zakeeya Patel's grandmother was the first distributor of Indian films in South Africa, no doubt attributing to her love for telling stories. Known for her television roles on M-Net's The Wild and SABC3's drama series High Rollers, Zakeeya has also acted in a...
Lara Adine Lipschitz grew up on our television screens as one of the enthusiastic presenters of SABC 1's interactive kids show YoTV. After school Lara attended Wits University to study drama where she focused on acting, physical theatre and musical theatre. Her first stage production as...
A trained artist, Katherine-Mary Pichulik studied at Michaelis majoring in printmaking. Her destined path revealed another direction however, one that she found via qualifying as a pastry chef and travelling abroad, most significantly to India where the beginnings of her accessory brand took place on...
