Coffeebeans Routes

Tuesdays and Thursdays 1400 - 1800. 
R595 per person



The Cape Town Fashion Route takes you deep inside Cape Town's fashion industry. Meet designers in their studios and boutiques.

Each tour has four different visits.

INCLUDES: 
- visits to design studios & innovative boutiques
- meet designers and fashion entrepreneurs

HIGHLIGHTS:
- visit private design studios
- meet the people that make fashion happen

Tour programme:
1400. Guests arrive at meeting point, welcome drink and introduction
1430. Visit1 eg Grandt Mason Originals
1515. Visit2 eg Olive Green Cat, central city
1600. Visit3 eg Melanie Brooks-Samuals Indhi, Woodstock
1645. Visit4 eg Hajila the Movement in Observatory.
1800. Back at starting point

The Fashion Route takes part partly on foot, and in air conditioned vans.

 

Tour starts from Coffeebeans Routes HQ, 70 Wale St Cape Town Central
Advance booking essentia.l
No minimum numbers on scheduled days.
Available as a private tour

 

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 Thulare Monareng's Fashion Deli, merchandising hot designers as delicatessen delights, in Pepsi fridges and fruit racks. Meanwhile Hanelli Rupert's Merchants on Long, in one of the city's oldest buildings, is a high fashion lounge, and The Movement in Observatory must have the world's only corridor fashion boutique, in a gracious Victorian semi.

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