SAFW AW23 COLLECTIONS | FOY BEAR

Kagiso Matlaisane is a streetwear designer and the founder of fashion brand “Foy Bear”. She studied her undergrad in Fashion Design at the University of Johannesburg. In her third year, she designed a cocktail dress for a contestant of the 2017 Miss SA pageant. She completed her BTech at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Her final collection was the focus of a fashion film, by creatives in Cape Town, which went on to be selected for nomination for the Bokeh Fashion Film Festival, in 2018. After graduating she interned as a buyer at TFG for the brands Markham and Sportscene. In May 2022, she launched her brand “Foy Bear” and hopes to explore alternative methods of sustainability through transformative design and multi-purpose fashion. Her AW23 collection will interpret “spinning”, a South African motorsport sub-culture which is a township-born version of “drifting”, with sustainable garments that can be worn in multiple ways.