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Palesa Mokubung during the Feathers Nominees Announcement And Pride Flag Hoisting at Constitutional  Hill on October 13, 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Palesa Mokubung takes centre stage at South African Fashion Week

The founder and creative directors of the Mantsho label marks 20 years of success in the fashion industry

Local clothing manufacturers have been dealt a number of blows in recent years, including the rise of international fast fashion retailers like Shein. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Will Shein’s shine eclipse SA industry?

Local clothing manufacturers have been dealt a number of blows in recent years, including the rise of international fast fashion retailers

Clothing and footwear have been the largest contributor to retail trade since October 2022. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Cash-strapped consumers still spending on clothing and footwear

Clothing and footwear have been the largest contributor to retail trade since October 2022

Objects of Desire: Little luxuries

H&M taps Rich Mnisi, while candles provide a ‘scents’ of place

Fast fashion costs the Earth

It’s affordable and in style, but cheap can be nasty; it uses vast quantities of water, pollutes and contributes to climate change

Something from Louis Vuitton’s first newborn range makes the ultimate gift for a stork party. Photo: Supplied

Objects of Desire: Eyes on you

Up the ante with objects that demand your attention

Cartier’s reimagined Révélation d’Une Panthère has hundreds of diamonds on its face. Photo: Supplied

Objects of Desire: Fierce and Fabulous

Fierce designs that are fabulously unique

The brass necklace from Elsa Schiaparelli.

Objects of Desire: Bring the heat

These are the hottest pieces straight off the runway, fresh out of the perfumery, and hot off the studio floor surely to bring the heat this summer.

Yay Abe x H&M South Africa is a nod to everyone who is trying their best. Basics from hoodies to sweatshirts are adorned with his punchy-toned flowers. (supplied: Yay Abe x H&M South Africa)

Get Your flowers with Yay Abe x H&M

Local illustrator Russel Abrahams’ Yay Abe, is the latest creative collaboration with H&M South Africa

Back foot: After his expulsion from the ANC, Julius Malema went to Gold Fields’ mine near Carletonville to campaign for the nationalisation of mines. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Without the ANC, Malema is a ‘destroyer of confidence’ no more

As the ANC’s Youth League leader, Julius Malema spooked investors a decade ago by popularising calls to nationalise the mines

Pressure: The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration is under budgetary constraints, the workload has mushroomed and CCMA director Cameron Morajane warns of political parties setting up labour desks. (Alaister Russell/Gallo Images/Sunday Times)

Politics interfering in CCMA work

The labour dispute resolution body says there is a growing trend of political parties and civil society organisations representing workers at hearings

New beginning: Mantsho clothing is designed by the fashion house’s owner Palesa Mokubung and is available from her store in Johannesburg and in H&M stores internationally. (Supplied)

Mantsho for the masses

Over the years H&M has come to be known for making high-end brands a little more accessible through its many collaborations with designers and brands such as Moschino, Kenzo,…

(Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

The human cost of fast fashion

Oxfam report reveals 100% of workers surveyed at Bangladeshi factories which make clothes for H&M and Cotton On are unable to make ends meet.

A Bangladeshi woman works at a garment factory in Dhamrai

H&M, Gap to probe sexual harassment in factories

Fashion giants vowed to investigate reports that garment workers who supply stores routinely face sexual harassment, verbal and physical abuse

Send us in: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s thuma mina campaign kicked off in Tembisa on Friday. But will he manage to corral enough ANC supporters behind his unity campaign?

Letters to the editor: January 19 to 25

Readers write in about Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign, the water sector and H&M

EFF members protest at the H&M store in the Mall of Africa

H&M debacle: My enemy’s enemy is a fighter

The H&M child model, who is black and in an offensive hoodie, is just one example of racism and harassment.

(Reuters)

An H&M mannequin speaks

‘Have mercy, I wanted to plead but, of course, couldn’t’

Salvini needs to choose between revolution and the restoration. Whether to leave Berlusconi

H&M stores are closed because they called our children baboons— Malema

‘We are black and we are proud. We are black and we are beautiful. We are black and we are not ashamed of being black’

It is the aspect of redistribution, reconfiguration and reallocation of work, budget and spend on suppliers and service providers in the industry that has evidenced serious inertia.

H&M faces Twitter backlash over SA ad campaign models

Swedish fashion retailer H&M has just launched in SA, but has already managed to alienate the country’s 80% black population in just 140 characters.