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NTWANA PRESENTS: BLACK SWAN THE PARTY Brought to you by Fagwinter. Following last night’s showing at @safashionweek, Black Swan leaves the runway for the dance floor, returning to the culture that helped shape its world. Ntwana has always existed between worlds, drawing from the many identities, sounds and realities that make Johannesburg what it is. The runway offers one expression of this vision, the rave another. Neither exists in isolation, and neither tells the whole story alone. Now, we bring Black Swan back to the people and the dance floor. THIS IS BLACK SWAN PARTY. 🦢🦢🦢 Design: @gnyhton
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NTWANA PRESENTS: BLACK SWAN These prints extend across a series of silhouettes and textures. Ruched bodices give way to elongated coats; while sheer tulle and flowing, flared forms introduce movement and volume. A dramatically textured mermaid dress brings theatricality to the silhouette, while trousers threaded with pink ribbon through silver eyelets set a delicate detail against hardware. Across garments, structure meets fluidity and softness acquires a sense of defiance. These are elements that articulate Ntwana’s wider point of view. It’s a collection that does not seek to reconcile the different worlds that inform it. Instead, it allows them to coexist, each retaining its character while changing the overall meaning. Ntwana becomes a personal account of contemporary life in a city like Johannesburg. It’s a story told through the city, its cultural life, and especially the people who inhabit and move through its vast contradictions with an understanding that being whole does not require being singular. Graphic artist 10239 on En Pointe, the collection’s prints: “The graphics came intuitively, starting from a drawing I made to the playlist I had listened to before the film. Judging by what emerged, something spiritual was taking place. The work explores the themes of Black Swan and interrogates Afrofuturism as it is largely presented. It offers an alternative rooted in ritual, spirituality, and techno and rave culture, situated within the post-colonial context and the post-apartheid condition. It also explores how the worlds of the muse, the inspiration and the references blur into one another.“ To experience the Black Swan collection at @safashionweek , see ticket link in bio. Creative direction: @mikhailmax Graphic artist: @___10239 Creative writing: @sandiblouse Music production: @morrismarsaie
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NTWANA PRESENTS: BLACK SWAN In a society that often flattens identity for legibility, Ntwana is embracing multiplicity with a core belief that identity need not be singular, coherent or easily digested. The city of Johannesburg provides context for this point of view. It’s a place of overlapping realities, holding within its limits worlds that rarely share a frame. Art Deco buildings rise from the inner city, while the glass-and-steel towers of Rosebank and Sandton project a different view of life. Between them, the city unfolds through leafy residential streets, dense apartment blocks, industrial structures and the improvised rhythm of street-level commerce. It’s a city whose identities are multiple, sometimes overlapping, sometimes divided by the structures that give the city its shape. Graphic artist 10239 on En Pointe, the collection’s prints: “I made En Pointe, the textile graphics for Ntwana’s Black Swan collection, during one of the most disorienting weeks of my life, and I believe that week lives in the images. The collection drew on the film Black Swan, so I refused to start designing until I had watched it. I watched it after more than 24 hours without sleep, coming off the TOYTOY birthday rave on the night of a lunar eclipse. On the dance floor that night, sober (I’m in recovery), I opened my eyes to a moving, portal-like pattern on the floor. It echoed a lattice I had drawn in a journal years earlier. My partner warned me not to watch the film in that state. I went ahead on purpose, treating it as a kind of method acting.“ To experience the Black Swan collection at @safashionweek, visit the ticket link in bio. Creative direction: @mikhailmax Graphic artist: @___10239 Creative writing: @sandiblouse Music production: @morrismarsaie
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@ntwanaofficial is a Johannesburg-based high-end fashion label founded by lifelong friends @mikhailmax and Mmisology . Rooted in the South African slang greeting “sho ntwana,” the brand bridges the gap between raw South African street culture and avant-garde luxury, guided by their core philosophy: “Bravery is Beautiful.” Inspired heavily by dark psychology, heavy fabrications, and Berlin’s underground techno subculture, NTWANA debuted with a luxury ostrich trench coat before gaining widespread acclaim for its massive silhouette bombers, hyper pants, and premium accessories worn by cultural icons like Maglera Doe Boy and Davido.
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Announcing our new Commercial Partnership Lead 👩🏾‍💻🧑‍💻 We are pleased to welcome Mikhail Brown (@mikhailmax ) to the Reconnected world 🌍 Mikhail joins us from a career spanning the media and design industries across South Africa 🇿🇦 - a combination that naturally maps on to our work to make way for innovative solutions and partnerships. In this role Mikhail will lead the development of our commercial partnerships and help build out our proprietary pipelines, curriculums and project portfolios in rural and peri-urban development across Southern Africa. We are excited to have you in this Reconnected journey with us 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻
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SEEEEE YOU AT THE FUNCTIONNNNNNN !🪩💞🍾👸🏾 cameras will beee on , so say cheeese !🫦🍾📹📸 Tickets available on Quicket !💋⏰
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Emerging from the intersection of underground techno culture and raw South African reality, NTWANA translates the informal warmth of a township greeting “Sho Ntwana” into garments that function as emotional armour. Read the full interview at: www.cikocirillo.com
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@reshare_app • @ciko.cirillo In this interview, @ntwanaofficial co-founder Mikhail Brown speaks to us about rethinking luxury through a distinctly South African lens. From Johannesburg’s underground creative scene to international fashion capitals, the brand reflects on how technical craftsmanship, cultural specificity and personal taste can coexist without compromise. What emerges is a portrait of a label expanding the language of South African luxury through precision, restraint and conviction.
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In this interview, @ntwanaofficial co-founder Mikhail Brown speaks to us about rethinking luxury through a distinctly South African lens. From Johannesburg’s underground creative scene to international fashion capitals, the brand reflects on how technical craftsmanship, cultural specificity and personal taste can coexist without compromise. What emerges is a portrait of a label expanding the language of South African luxury through precision, restraint and conviction.
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This Saturday we welcome a fresh line up compiled of friends and family alike. Same place, same time. Come dance with us ❤️ Guest-list closes at 1AM R80 before 1AM R100 after Poster: @thomaslunderstedt
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Oodles of fun was had during my visit to JHB and, as usual, few photos were taken. So here’s a random assortment of everything I have that’s already featured on my stories 🤭 To everyone who asked me when am I moving back all I’ll say is… I could be convinced ;) love you Jozi 🫶🏽
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