Sindiso Khumalo

Sindiso Khumalo is a South African sustainable designer label for women, founded in Cape Town in 2015 by designer Sindiso Khumalo. She first studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and worked in London for architect David Adjaye, then earned a Masters in Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins. Her unapologetically bold, bright and feminine clothing puts sustainability, craft and empowerment at its heart. The range includes embroidered T-shirts, skirts such as the Vicki Blue Embroidered Skirt, dresses like the Ayanda Gingham Check Dress and the Harper Anglaise Dress, jackets like the Luna Embroidery Jacket, and sets and suits. Accessories include Sindiso Khumalo x Ballo sunglasses. Khumalo designs every textile from her own drawings, watercolours and abstract cutouts, drawing on her Zulu and Ndebele heritage and the lands of KwaZulu-Natal. Clothing is made in South Africa, including in Woodstock, Cape Town, using cotton, linen, denim and wool. Khumalo was a joint winner of the LVMH Prize in 2020. She has shown at Milan Fashion Week, spoken on sustainable fashion at the United Nations, and exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Zeitz MOCAA.