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THE YOURLUXURY TEAM WENT WATCH AND JEWEL SPOTTING at Watches and Wonders 2023, and we’re excited to bring you all the novelties, trends, conversations – and even the unexpected pieces – to come out of the incredibly prestigious fair. From gem-set innovations to bold dials, coloured ceramics to playful designs (think Kermit the Frog!), writer Debbie Hathway shares her experiences from Geneva.

Since we were feeling inspired, we also did some window shopping for Father’s Day gifts to spoil the special man in your life – be it your dad, son, partner or friend – from high-end accessories to investment timepieces and fabulous scents, or perhaps even a bespoke suit. “A visit to a tailor can be the ultimate transcendental ode to the quiet luxury trend,” says writer Kimberley Schoeman, who interviewed fours tailors redefining the fit, so to speak.

Whatever your idea of quiet luxury is – that bespoke suit or an escape to the bush – there is a heightened awareness and a mindfulness filtering through. We believe it’s a lifestyle choice rather than a trend, and hopefully it’s here to stay.

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Culture Club

The National Arts Festival (which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024) will once again take visitors to Makhanda, aka Grahamstown, on a journey into a multi-genre feast of dance, theatre, poetry, music and art. Celebrating South Africa’s most dynamic and new creative talent, highlights include the Jazzart triple bill, Mamela Nyamza’s new work, Hatched Ensemble and music by acclaimed composer Msaki, who’s up for the Standard Bank Young Artists Award 2023. From 22 June – 2 July.

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IDENTITY/POLITICS

From 15 June to 17 August, Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town will host ZANELE MUHOLI, the largest ever exhibition of photographic and sculptural work by the prolific visual activist of the same name. There are three great reasons not to miss this incisive show: It will be an unveiling of the largest number of Zanele’s truly monumental bronze sculptures to date, it will reveal never-before-seen photography from the artist’s Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series of prints, and the body of work will ask important, probing questions related to the positioning and treatment of LGBTQI+ people, women and the female body in South Africa. “The work that I have been doing is to do with visibility,” Zanele says. “This is no longer about me. It is now about every female body that ever existed in my family, that never even imagined these dreams were possible.” Throughout the show, Zanele’s body is a canvas on display, making powerful statements about the visibility and stigmatisation of feminine sexual organs, the visual activist’s relationship to their Catholic upbringing and the one place that we all call home: The womb. Add this to your calendar now.

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AFRICA, YOUR TIME IS ALWAYS

From 23 June to 22 October, the Brooklyn Museum in New York City is hosting a travelling exhibition organised by the V&A Museum in London, titled Africa Fashion. The exhibition examines the explosion of creativity that accompanied the independence from colonial rule that many African countries (such as Ghana and Nigeria) experienced as they threw off the shackles of imperial occupation from the 1950s onwards. If you happen to be in the city that never sleeps during these months, expect your senses to be overwhelmed by a dazzling display of over 180 individual works of clothing, photography, jewellery, textiles, literature, music and film. This will be the first time much of this work has been displayed in North America. Arranged and organised by Ernestine White-Mifetu and Annissa Malvoisin, this important exhibition takes place in a borough that’s home to many communities and families of African and diasporic origin.

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