SAFW AW23 COLLECTIONS | ARTCLUB AND FRIENDS

Launched by Robyn Keyser, in November 2016, Artclub and Friends is a unisex label made in Cape Town, South Africa. With a team of 6 full time and 3 part time employees, Artclub and Friends is 100% youth and women owned, and is extremely passionate about creating high-quality, locally made, and affordable garments. Deeply inspired by the slow fashion movement, the brand’s vision is to convey the artisanal quality of clothes-making in all its facets - from design to manufacture A collective brand concept where artists collaborate and can express themselves freely, they do not gender their pieces. They have collaborated with various artists including Lunga Ntila and Ricky Rick and have also created capsule collections for Shelflife Store, Human by Nature, Orphan Street Clothing Store and Vodacom Red. Sustainability is part of the culture that guides every decision they make. Some of their favourite features in the press have been on SA Fashion Week, in GQ, Marie Claire, ID Magazine, Mail and Guardian, Bubblegum Club, High Snobiety, and the Sunday Times. Robyn Keyser’s Artclub and Friends will present another trans-seasonal and timeless collection using future-orientated materials and construction techniques. This season will see the introduction of more conceptual pieces that, “tell stories of a future we are dreaming of creating and of the cities we can expect to live in” as well as a return to the official “Artclub Blue” first introduced at SAFW in 2020, blended with earthie