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  • Honey, we’re home – a real life encounter with Honey and Bra Gavini

    Aus’Honey is a badass black girl that does not only live on the internet. Honey is a real girl and she has rolled out the welcome mat into her & her lover’s boujee home, which is decorated with deep red velvet couches that surround her black and white carpet. An inherited antique cabinet which is filled with her colourful clothing, Zulu slippers and jewels is placed in one corner and two pink ceramic swans, another inheritance from her grandmother, are delicately placed on either side of a BaSotho hat on a black and white server placed in the opposite corner. A record player stands tall steps away from a bottle of vodka, and of course portraits from the chapters of the Honey series that feature Honey’s ride or die, Bra Gavini hang on the walls.

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    Image courtesy of Rendani Nemakhavani

    Honey is a manifestation of different parts of Rendani Nemakhavani, a communication designer and art director, who collaborated with photographer Kgomotso Neto Tleane to share Honey’s life through a cinematic photography series.

    Initially, Rendani wanted The Honey to be representation of different women through one person but as the series unfolded, Honey became an extension of Rendani so using her to portray more than one woman became difficult. Rendani started exploring different parts of herself: her softness, her hair and her electrifying love affair with Bra Gavini, who is portrayed by Kgomotso. The sweet escape that Honey provides has allowed Rendani to share her deepest fantasies, like having a thuggish boyfriend who rides shotgun in her gusheshe. However, her fantasies go beyond fast cars and bad boys. Rendani wanted to be a“model” and through Honey, she has expanded the connotations of the title and created a platform that allows her to be anything else she desires.

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    Photography by Khotso Mahlagu

    As a fan of their work, The Honey reached out to photographers, Andile Buka and Anthony Bila, to interpret their year of storytelling through a collaboration called the Honeyversay. “GO HOME HONEY” was the theme of the work that the collaboration was based on. From this theme, the idea to create a portal into Honey and Gavin’s home was born.

    So far every interaction with Honey and Gavini has been through a screen or a print. Rendani wanted to make Honey and Gavini tangible and personal. By stepping into their home, Rendani’s imagination becomes real, Honey becomes real.

    Urban Mosadi’s space on 7 Siweright avenue in Maboneng, Johannesburg currently serves as a portal into the happy home and the installation will be accessible through Aus’Honey and Bra Gavini until 1 March 2017.

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    Photography by Kgomotso Neto Tleane
  • Bubblegum Club Stories

    Introducing our new feature: Bubblegum Club Stories. Each week we will put together a short video to let you know what has happened and what is happening in Johannesburg’s creative scene. We will be following creatives and giving you the scoop on what they are working on and what’s on their minds. We will be filling you in on cool events, parties, exhibitions, stores and what people are wearing the streets. Adding to this will be behind the scenes snippets from some of our shoots for our cover features.

    Our first episode features a party hosted by Weheartbeat at Poolside in Maboneng with Lowkey and special guest Eric Lau. We caught up with Urban Mosadi’s creative mind Tiisetso Molobi about the brand and what we can expect to see this year. We visited Dipstreet store and had a chat with owner Tusa Mamba about street fashion and what Dipstreet has to offer. For all the art lovers we include images of the collaborative exhibition by Ayanda Mabulu and James Delaney titled “Footprints on Commissioner Street 1886 – 2016”.

  • The Outfitters is reimagined as young mavericks adopt the streetwear staples and give it gender fluidity.

    The Outfitters, a men’s fashion museum, is an urban institution for urban workers, a cultural and historical nexus dating back to Johannesburg in the 1920’s. A staple of the CBD, and originally run by Indian tailors, the aesthetic from these boutiques became ingrained in urban culture and observable throughout the country’s towns and cities. The influence of street cultures, in the form of pantsula and skate style see the outfitters aesthetic into the millenium as it gets reimagined by the young and urban from Tiisetso Molobi founder and creative director of Urban Mosadi to Boyzn Bucks crew member Mkay Frash, Kabelo Kungwane & Wanda Lephoto from the Sartists creative collective, Anees Petersen founder and creative director of Young & Lazy and Corner Store’s Kalo Canterbury. These fashion forward are featured below, in the denim dungarees, checkered shirts and khaki’s that have been the uniform of urban workers for decades transcending ethnicities and even gender.

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    Kalo Canterbury a.k.a Kdollahz

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    Anees Petersen of Young and Lazy

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    Kabelo Kungwane of The Sartists

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    Mkay Frash of the BoyznBucks

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    Tiisetso Molobi of Urban Mosadi and Laura Windvogel

     

     

  • Urban Mosadi, A Purveyor of Pan African Luxury

    In any metropolis, street style offers a reflection of the society at hand. The sartorial selections of the urbanites in question offer glimpses into their cultures and creativity. Urban Mosadi accessories are pan African pieces for the stylish and urbane. Tiisetso Molobi, the mother of UrbanMosadi, has imprinted part of her own personality on the pieces, they are unmistakable; her signature low-key luxury complimented by authentic African materials.

    Knowledgeable on the rich history of the materials used in her designs, Tiisetso, reflects on how the stories contained in the Kente and mudcloth hold our heritage as Africans, she says, “Imagine all the wonderful stories that these textiles hold? How can one not want to show them off and share them with the world? But most importantly, with our peers across the rest of the continent? It’s a dope way to share identity.”

    Urban Mosadi pieces offer a doorway into the history of Africa in a powerful, and beautiful way, her bags and camera straps can be found on the bodies of the talented and trendy the world over, she counts the likes of AKA and Trevor Stuurman amongst her clients. The Mudcloth lookbook profiles Tiisetso on a day in her life, her pieces peppered throughout the day as she works, skates and cycles through Cape Town. The laid back luxury of the collection is vivified in the video, each piece pulled together to portray a beautiful balance between fashion and function, work and play. It is sublime.

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