{"id":20662,"date":"2016-04-28T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/?p=20662"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:15:12","slug":"south-african-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/brands\/denim-brands-international\/south-african-fashion-week\/20662","title":{"rendered":"Afrikanswiss SS16 Collection &ndash; South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/afrikanswisss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrikanswiss<\/a> is one of Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier denim brand established in\u00c2\u00a0 2006 to celebrate the aesthetics and heritage of Afrika through the medium of clothing (denim) and lifestyle. Afrikanswiss always celebrates the the African heritage and lifestyle.\u00c2\u00a0 All their inspiration is sourced from within the African continent. For this\u00c2\u00a0 range for the current SS16 collection they are celebrating the original inhabitants of Southern Afrika, where they reside, i.e. the Khoisan. The brand used a kit of patchwork, leather and draping as the Khoisan would. All the denim was hand treated using bleaching agents, sanding and fabric paint. They also hand painted some rock art by the Khoisan onto the denim and\u00c2\u00a0 further\u00c2\u00a0 went on to multi dye the cotton and silk screened the\u00c2\u00a0 cotton in the Khoisan print . An amazing collection to look at !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/30-4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/30_thumb-2.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/31-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/31_thumb-2.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/32.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/32_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/33.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/33_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/34.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/34_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmshow.denimsandjeans.com\/invite.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"Register here to get invite for Denimsandjeans.com Vietnam Show\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Footer-728-x-90.gif\" alt=\"Register here to get invite for Denimsandjeans.com Vietnam Show\" width=\"815\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/35.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/35_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/36.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/36_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"South African Fashion Week : Denimsandjeans.com\" width=\"820\" height=\"636\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/37.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; 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Afrikanswiss always celebrates the the African heritage and lifestyle.\u00c2\u00a0 All their inspiration is sourced from within the African continent. For this\u00c2\u00a0 range for the current SS16 collection they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1318],"tags":[1466,1588,1390],"class_list":["post-20662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denim-brands-international","category-news","tag-african-denim","tag-afrikanswiss","tag-ss16-denim-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}