The people who teach you
Teachers
Meet the designers and educators who lead the classes. Each has a staff badge below: tap it to turn it over, or pull it and let go.
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Founder & teacher
Lethabo Mahamba
A South African creative director and fashion entrepreneur, raised in a family of makers: a knitwear designer mother and a dressmaker grandfather. His approach is rooted in craftsmanship, identity and creative independence.
- Founder of
- Mosara eStudio
- Layback Atelier
- Experience
- Over a decade in fashion design, garment manufacturing and visual storytelling
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Fashion designer & educator
Malungelo Myeza
A South African fashion designer and educator whose practice combines fashion, culture and creative research. His teaching focuses on practical skills, creative confidence and independent thinking in emerging designers.
- Qualifications
- National Diploma in Fashion Production
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Johannesburg
- Founder of
- The House of Myeza
- Experience
- Fashion design, garment construction, technical product development and creative arts education
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Designer & author
Prudence Madisha
Trained in fashion design, with further study in business, project management and legal studies. Prudence founded a sewing academy and a pattern manufacturing business, and wrote and illustrated a beginner’s book on pattern making and sewing.
- Qualifications
- Degree in fashion design, Design Academy of Fashion
- Certificates in business management, project management and legal studies, Varsity College
- Founder of
- @nubbase_sewingacademy
- @patterns_manufacturing
- Recognition
- SAFW finalist, Scouting Women’s Wear Challenge 2017
- Raw Silk top 3 runner-up, 2016
- Author-illustrator
- Beginner’s Pattern Making & Sewing Book
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Fashion designer
Jones Maphakela
A passionate and patient designer who runs his own clothing brand, specialising in commercial women’s wear and occasional menswear.
- Qualification
- Fashion design diploma, Central Johannesburg College
- Own brand
- #JonnoDesigns
Learn from them
Fourteen classes, once a week, starting with your first stitch.