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Strauss & Co launched its contemporary sale in South Africa’s oldest working harbour. Strauss & Co was pleased to announce details of its first-ever dedicated contemporary art sale, which was held on 17 February 2018.  The venue for the 71-lot sale was an impressive former warehouse overlooking the Duncan Docks, a harbour facility at the Port of Cape Town. Formerly a cold-storage facility it now forms part of a complex of buildings being transformed by the V&A Waterfront into a multi-billion-rand cruise liner terminal and is located a convenient five-minute walk from the V&A Waterfront’s Silo District and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. The sale, which focuses on outstanding examples of contemporary art made by South African, African and diaspora artists, coincided with the Cape Town Art Fair (16-18 February 2018). This pace-setting event at the start of the 2018 South African art calendar is held annually in the Cape Town International Conve...

Men. Men. Men. Fashion, conversations, cheers. I'ts that time again. Two more days and South African Menswear Week kicks off with a offsite, invite only show by Dicker, while the rest of us await the next day which will be the official media and public kickoff for menswear week. I am super excited to see my favorite designers A/W collections and what they have in store for us this time around. Last year, my breath was taken by a couple of designers which i have great relationship with now and have worked with on my soon-to-be released visual coffee book. Before I mention them, another great initiative coming to SAMW by one of the best menswear bloggers in Southern Hemisphere on my account, Monde Mntsi for Renaissance Men SA is Menswear Talks: The Business of Menswear in Africa which you need to RSVP for inorder to secure your seat. I am applauding Monde for taking on such a huge project as I believe is long overdue. It's about time that someone thinks of the people tha...