SA’s influencers strutting the globe’s fashion weeks

SOUTH African women certainly are fashionable, from celebrities to politicians and everyone in between. So it only makes sense that some local women are influencing fashion across the country and even around the world. Here is our list of top social media fashion influencers.

Kefilwe Mabote

This beauty, pictured, has to make it to the top of any fashion list. She has taken her love for fashion and turned it into a business. The stylist and blogger is 2017 South African Style Award winner, she runs her own popular blog and website and has collaborated with some of the biggest luxury fashion and beauty brands in the world, from Salvatore Ferragamo to Dior.

She regularly flies to Europe to attend fashion weeks and often gets sent expensive gifts from Dior and Ferragamo while some of us have to use our hard-earned money, but that’s the beauty of the brand she has created for herself. She also represents South African fashion, stepping out in local designs when walking the streets of Milan.

Tshepi Vundla

Mother, fiancée, stylist and model, she is doing it all. Tshepi is effortlessly beautiful and always puts her best foot forward, whether she is on a red carpet or on mommy duty. From invitations from Christian Dior to working with beauty brand Estee Lauder, she influences more than 100 000 people on Instagram alone.

Sarah Langa-Mackay

Like others on this list, Sarah went from being a model to blogging about fashion and working with some big brands. The beauty has worked with brands like Jo Malone London, La Mer and Michael Kors. She has posed on the cover of magazines and almost always wears local designs.

Melody Molale

Melody is currently a brand ambassador for Ponds, an influencer for Estee Lauder and Bobbi Brown, and runs a popular website. A lover of all things fashion, she has flown to London on a collaboration with make-up brand Urban Decay and Virgin Atlantic and she is good friends with fellow influencer Langa-Mackay.

Aisha Baker-Parnell

The Capetonian, who recently became a mother, is known for her flawless make-up. She’s also the founder of the fashion and beauty website BakedOnline, which she runs. She works with brands like Glamglow.