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born 1987
Thabo Makhetha-Kwinana(21 September 1987) is a fashion designer known for her designs which fuse African and Western styles, with a focus on Basotho culture.
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“And I remember being told that we are royalty and I told myself that I want to go as a Basotho princess.”
How it all started was that I was creating a garment for myself for the Durban July at the time and the theme was royalty.
“I remember a lady praying over me and telling my parents, ‘This child is going to do amazing things with her hands one day.
I grew up in a Christian home and we would go to prayer.
Your blessings are in your movement. If you stand in one place, doors won’t open for you. So go for it.
My brand is definitely for that woman — she travels and she wants to stand out in a room. So, I make clothes for very bold individuals.
“It is a textile woven in Cape Town, so it is a 100% South African-made product.
But I am still talking about the stories and the heritage of the Basotho people as well as my personal story that is interwoven in it, my perspective as a mother and a woman.
So, for some time, it was between fine art and fashion and she said to me, ‘No, people need clothes and not a painting on their wall.
The conversation with my mother was a lot easier because she had seen that her mother was able to make a living off being a seamstress.
My grandmother Dikeledi was a seamstress. She passed away when I was three but a lot of people say the gift was from her, which is why I became interested in sewing and making beautiful things
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