Adidas has unveiled an African heritage-inspired women’s sportswear collection designed in collaboration with South African luxury designer Thebe Magugu. The Adidas x Thebe Magugu collection marks the German sportswear brand’s first collection inspired by African heritage and features vibrant and expressive sport and style designs that celebrate...
1 Aug 2022
AZ Factory, the fashion start-up founded by the late Alber Elbaz and Richemont in 2021, has confirmed that South African designer Thebe Magugu will be the first “amigo” guest collaborator. On the brand’s social, AZ Factory explained that “amigos” will collaborate with the brand “to design beautiful, playful, practical and solutions-driven...
7 Mar 2022
African fashion designers on Monday paid tribute to American star designer Virgil Abloh for helping "open the door" and allowing them to be seen and heard in the global industry. Artistic director for Louis Vuitton men's collections, Abloh, whose family was from Ghana, died on Sunday of cancer aged 41, after becoming the first major black...
30 Nov 2021
In this video, fashion designer Thebe Magugu has presented his SS22 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Do you want to see more clothing collections? Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace. Video: Thebe Magugu via YouTube Photo credit: Patternbank, Facebook
15 Oct 2021
Pitti Uomo went from around 30,000 visitors and 18,500 buyers in June 2019 to 6,000 visitors and 4,000 buyers in June 2021 as the event celebrated its 100th edition with a toned-down event in light of ongoing Covid uncertainty. “Normally I do not indulge in sentimentality, but if there was a special feature of the days of the fair that are...
6 Jul 2021
The centenary edition of Pitti Immagine has finally been revealed. After two digital-only formats the Florentine fair will reopen to visitors, marking the start of the menswear fashion season with over 300 brands confirmed to participate. The Pitti Connect platform will include a total of 350 men’s brands, 113 children’s brands and 86 fabric...
9 Jun 2021
In this video, luxury South African fashion designer Thebe Magugu has presented his FW21 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Do you want to see more FW21 clothing collections? Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace. Video: IMAXtree.tv via YouTube Photo credit: Thebe Magugu, Facebook
9 Mar 2021
In this video, The Fashion Archive discusses South African designer Thebe Magugu's SS21 collection ‘Counter Intelligence.’ In 2019, Magugu became the first African designer to win an LVMH prize. Watch the video below. Source: The Fashion Archive via YouTube Photo credit: Thebe Magugu, Facebook
27 Oct 2020
Thebe Magugu, last year's winner of the LVMH prize, has now stepped into the growing world of e-commerce. There's no arguing that it's next to impossible for a fashion brand to survive without e-commerce nowadays, especially among the era of coronavirus. Magugu promptly began working on e-commerce expansion after a drop in wholesale orders that...
18 Sept 2020
Yesterday, Wednesday, September 4, 2019, marked the sixth edition of the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. In attendance was five artistic directors from the LVMH group brands - J.W. Anderson (Loewe), Kris Van Assche (Berluti), Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior), Nicolas Ghesquière (Louis Vuitton), and Clare Waight Keller (Givenchy). As well as...
5 Sept 2019
Johannesburg-based South African fashion designer Thebe Magugu has won the LVMH Prize 2019. For grabbing the top prize, and beating 1,700 other applicants in the process, Magugu will receive 300,000 euros and a year’s worth of mentoring from the team behind the LVMH group. Swedish actress and face of LVMH Alicia Vikander presented him with the...
4 Sept 2019
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