SMARTIES IN JOHANNESBURG

What is special about a bunch of Joburg fashion students getting a Harajuku look?
It challenges prevailing and often restricting notions of Africanness.

Their colours may be straight out of London’s neon craze, but it aint the same wearing this gear in a township.
Here its courageous to wear a kilt — even if its a genius 3 quarter length.

This was a little show they put on at The Drill Hall, an exhibition space where the Treason Trials were held in a rough area of downtown Johannesburg. Everyone’s spirit was lifted by these kids and their energy.

And then there was this one guy who just pitched up in a top he’d made from a Barbie towel. For me, he was so the winner.