Black Coffee

Black Coffee, South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011 (Pictures)

April 18, 2011

Black Coffee consistently gives local fashion a distinctive face with its deeply referential, meticulously engineered and ultimately divergent approach. Their design ethos embraces contrast and re-shapes traditions with an intuitive twist. The result is mysteriously familiar yet refreshingly unique occupying [...]

South Africa Fashion Week April 8th-10th, 2011 (Schedule)

March 22, 2011

Joburg Fashion Week, Arise Fashion Week and now SA Fashion Week! Check out the schedule below and visit the SAFW for more details. April 8th, 2011 Buyers’ Lounge and Networking session 1900 (7pm) Black Coffee 20:30 (8:30pm) Amanda Laird Cherry [...]

Designer Danica Lepen Announces Departure from Black Coffee Label

July 21, 2010

Danica Lepen, the other design half of South Africa’s popular design brand Black Coffee, recently announced her departure from the label to work as a freelance stylist and consultant. “Working with Jacques has been a privilege, we were lucky enough [...]

Is it Necessary for African Designers to Show Abroad?

March 8, 2010

“What is the real interest behind Arise’s parading of African designers around the world?” . . . Ifashion.com writer Milisuthando Bongela ask? Bongela further tries to answer her main topic, “Is it Necessary for South African Designers to Show Abroad.” The [...]

Arise Magazine African Collective III Fall 2010 | Backstage (Pictures)

February 14, 2010

Oluchi, Nduka, Deola Sagoe, Anisa Mpungwe & Black Coffee backstage at the Arise Magazine African Collective III