Coffeebeans Routes

Cape Town Fashion Route Half day
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1400 - 1800.
R695 per person
No minimum numbers on scheduled tours

Highlights:
- meet local fashion designers in their studios or boutiques
- get behind the scenes of the city’s fashion scene

Inclusions:
- mineral water

Exclusions:
- lunch
- discretionary tips

Cape Town is a fashion city to the core. We have a rich history of bespoke tailoring and dressmaking. Everybody's auntie was a seamstress, and everybody's uncle ran a fabric wholesaler. This has always been a city of elegant eccentricity. To this day, old school tailors exist all over the city, and, while the bespoke suit is not as in vogue as it once was in the city, a whole new generation of design ideas and innovations make Cape Town something of a fashion capital in Africa.

Today we have so many designers. We continue to be surprised at how many there are in Cape Town, some are household names, some are working out of households. And the level of innovation and surprise is high.

There’s Greer Valley’s Kushn, blending Kente fabrics and local leather into the most beautiful accessories for tech devices. The Movement in Observatory must have the world's only corridor fashion boutique, in a gracious Victorian semi. Olive Green Cat is blending amber, resin and diamonds into exquisite un-bling jewellery.

Our Fashion Route takes the guest deep inside the city's fashion world, meeting designers in their studios and boutiques. The tour is about the stories of Cape Town's Fashion world. It is a tour suitable for anyone with an interest in fashion, from the high couture fan to the street fashion fan.

Featured Designers include:


Robyn Lidsky's Ruby Lingerie		Thulare Monareng's Fashion Deli Pan-African fashion

Philippa Green Jewellery Specialises in one-off silver and perspex.		Ida Elsje Jewellery. Specialises in suspending diamonds in resins

Melanie Brooks Samual's Indhi		Me & You Concept Store An incubator for local designers

Hanneli Rupert's Merchants on Long. Luxury pan-African boutique		Hajila Movement & Intsangu Street wear brand

Tammy Frazer's Frazer Parfum Bespoke perfumery		Sometimes we'll meet up with CTFC CEO Bryan Ramkiliwan

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In the media

"A Culinary Gateway to Cape Town "NEW
YORK TIMES

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YORK TIMES

"A cultural treasure hunt"
TIME MAGAZINE

"A fascinating window on life" NATIONAL
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"A new & novel way to get inside the city"
SUNDAY TIMES UK

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