Khensani Mohlatlole
South African writer, beauty school dropout and 2nd most annoying tree hugger you'll ever meet. Probably somewhere between Cape Town and Johannesburg, cosplaying as an African fashion historian and experimental archaeologist, making content about who we were, where we come from and what the hell to wear for it all.
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Ghana’s first woman photographer & her radical self-portraits
The dull tragedy of apartheid’s trad wives | The Virgins (1976) by Jillian Becker
Reimagining the agbada with Tudor tailoring techniques for the Met Gala
The Hidden German Influence in South African Traditional Clothing
The Blasian Wardrobe: Fusing Vietnamese & Xhosa Fashion (& A SEWING PATTERN}
Africa’s best dressed leaders
Steal like an African fashion designer
When the apartheid government made a Black Superman
The politics of Black Panther's costume design
South Africa’s lost indigenous textiles
Crimes of Fashion: Free Black Women in 18th Century Cape Town
The unexpected truth of shweshwe, the denim of South Africa
Embroidery in Apartheid
Africa has no Fashion.
GRWM 18th century Cape Town as a Free Black Woman #shorts #historicalcostuming #18thcenturyfashion
Black hair in 18th century Cape Town #headwrapstyles #tignonlaws #shorts
Rating EVERY South African Miss Universe National Costume from 2002 - 2022
I made a Princess Tiana inspired ball gown for my birthday | Part 2: The Bodice
Seasonal colour analysis for Black people and the Gen Z obsession with -cores and labels
Will South Africa ban Shein? RIP Stink, the evil you've done is enough
Making Princess Tiana's Best Dress (Victorian Style) | Part 1: The Skirt & Bustle
South Africa’s First It Girls: Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba and Dorothy Masuka
Sewing Dido Belle's Wrapping Gown | 18th-Century Sultana/Banyan
Black Fashion in the 18th Century | Recreating Dido Elizabeth Belle
Cape Town's first fashion influencers were material girls | 18th-century Dutch Cape Colony
18th Century Cape Town was like an episode of Gossip Girl - African Fashion History #shorts
African hairstyling and culture in Star Wars #shorts
Galxboy isn't fashion, it's fan fiction | The South African brand bootlegging Gucci & Louis Vuitton
Did Instagram ruin South African Fashion Week? AW'23 Collections Recap
African fashion isn't "Art" (and why that's a good thing for sustainability)