Eyo Family, thanks for joining my blog. My name is Thapelo, surname Masango, but I’m widely referred to as “Ari The Designer” as you would see from my Instagram page listed on my blog . I’m an emerging fashion designer born and raised in 031 region of DURBAN!! Yo, one thing y’all should know about me is that I love fashion and rapping (rap music in general); now before y’all box me into the “skrr skrr” category, why don’t you first get to know a little bit of me first 😂😂. For those of you who don’t know, a “skrr skrr” is what I would think is a typical “traphead”- a person who listens and probably sings along to trap music. Even though many people do listen to (and probably do sing along to trap music) NOBODY wants to be called a “skrr skrr” ⚰️⚰️ 💀. If you know about which typa people are called this you’ll understand 😂😂 .
Anyway though, we ain’t here to talk about skrr-skrrs, we are gathered here today in the name of Fashion! South African fashion more specifically! 🔥🔥 I will be highlighting some hella flyy South African brands that are really slept on and not noticed. Well… even though some technically are noticed, I still do feel as if they are really underrated. So that’s the person of the blog fam, I’m gonna be highlighting the fact that South Africa got some fire creatives in the fashion industry . To do this I’mma start with a mini introduction of me.
This is me, last year. This photoshoot, amongst many others, that I did for certain Durban-based clothing brands is what made me realize where my passion stood. While upgrading my matric results to study Law this is what I would be doing as a hobby . I ended up noticing that I have a creative gift and could actually turn this fashion thing into a career, hence I dropped law and took up Fashion Design at Inscape Design College. CENSORED is one of the local Durban brands I will be speaking of in future posts. As for now, here’s a taste of some of the other photographs taken on the day by local photographer and entrepreneur “Saucininthacitii” of Saucininthacitii_television.
Note: All these photos were taken in 2018.
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