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MALL oF

AFRICA BRINGs

soUTH AFRICAN

FAsHIoN HoME

KOOP STUDIO – A START-UP HUB FOR

BRIGHT YOUNG DESIGNERS

Find the freshest local fashion collections at the recently-opened KOOP Studio pop-up hub in the Mall of
Africa where at least twelve up-and-coming new signatures will be featured over the next four months.
Store Manager, Palesa Moreko (right) and Sales Assistant, Kabelo Rangaka (left) will show you around.
H ave you always wanted to development of a vibrant local and hip and happening street wear

express your uniquely south
from signatures Bi Parel and BLvNK.
design culture as director of south
African flair for fashion and
the past 23 years, KOOP studio will
support local designers but African Fashion Week (sAFW) for To ensure that you make a top to
found it hard to find them tucked be home to twelve collections up to toe statement, the heady mix also
away in far-flung studios in semi- December 2020. These collections will includes proudly south African
industrial areas, off the beaten track? be interchanged regularly to ensure luggage brand, There and Back, as
Now, you need go no further than ongoing variety and excitement. well as a range of patterned scarves,
the Mall of Africa to find some of blankets and accessories showcasing
the freshest local signatures at the FRoM sERIoUsLY sMART each of the participating designers’
recently-opened KOOP studio, a To CAsUAL ANd CooL distinctive prints and patterns.
pop-up hub where designer start-ups Amongst others, these brands range
can gain direct access to a large and from gorgeous women’s occasion wear MaXhosa’s sUCCEss
affluent market amongst the buzz from Ezokhetho - Isizulu for “carefully The opening of the KOOP studio
of a glamourous shopping centre. chosen as being the best or most pop-up hub follows the enormous
suitable” - which aims to tell African success that brilliant designer,
A collaborative venture between stories using fabric, and Watermelon Laduma Ngxokolo has experienced
seasoned retailer, sandy rogers and social Club’s range for both men and with his Maxhosa knitwear since
industry stalwart, Lucilla Booyzen, women, to Dope Motherhood’s lounge opening a small store on the lower
who has been spearheading the wear with sass for modern moms, level in the Mall of Africa in 2018.

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