Promotional clothes and accessories have been seen as uncool but it’s made it’s way into the consumer’s fashion choices. The way in which it has done this has been through creative twists by big fashion retailers and fashion entrepreneurs alike. Brands like Castle, Coca Cola and Red Bull have made wearable products that bear their...Continue Reading

Jidenna, American music artist, was influential in the bearded-look movement. It started to explode back in 2015 when his hit song “Classic Man” was released. It has become an anthem even to this day because bearded men are turning out to be the new “classic”. A bearded French man who I had asked why he...Continue Reading

Digital is the enabler to the new work flow. It is inspiring pre-teens, teens and adults alike to change the meaning of work and to create new ways (more fun ways) of making money. Consumers are now sellers too. They sell themselves, their products and their services on social media and if they are adults...Continue Reading

The insight of transcendence in this context may or may not have a spiritual element depending on the person trying to attain it and to each his own. It is what people and funnily enough many young people are trying to attain. Transcendence can seem unobtainable but it is being attained in small ways. It’s...Continue Reading

Banking queues, cell phone queries and even the thought of buying medication is such a schlep. Can these things at least be made some what enjoyable? No one eagerly wants to do any of these things. They are activities that take up time and money which is so valuable to consumers. All the consumer has...Continue Reading

The latest surge of co-ordinated items make it effortless for consumers to dress up for a day or night out. Matching tops and bottoms have not only been seen at several fashion retailers but also by fashion start-ups and on people that take particular pride in getting dressed up and looking stylish.   Having looks...Continue Reading

Intense protesting has been seen on the streets, people take part in marches for everyone to see. However there are other ways of campaigning and it is happening all around us. People are coming together, adding fuel to one another’s fire so that real change can begin to happen. There is a unity of people...Continue Reading

It is summer in the Northern hemisphere. An attractive time for South African’s to go out and tour much warmer parts of the world especially Europe. Travel is the opportunity to change perceptions of what South Africa is like. From a South African consumers perspective, it provides the opportunity for people to compare their quality of...Continue Reading

What the consumer wears is a message communicating pieces of their belief system. Messages in fashion are becoming less about self but more about social change. Everyone can become an advocate for change through what they wear. This is because society is pretty much in shambles, it is completely fragmented and out of the confusion...Continue Reading

You’ll often hear “I’m a human being” as a response when someone feels they have fallen short of their own or others expectations. We are humans and our ways are both interesting and very paradoxical. These paradoxes are part of the human DNA and while some people try to attain perfection there are others who...Continue Reading