Blessed Fashion Brand

Transcript[00:00:00] Wesley: Hey greetings everybody. Uh, Wesley pepper here And you're tuned into my podcast Wesley peppers art Lexica, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah. Hi everybody. Um, yeah man, thanks to all my new and returning listeners. Welcome to you all. Thanks for coming through. Uh, From different parts of the world, listening to it on different devices.[00:00:30] Yeah, man. Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. Um, yeah, I did. I love it, man. Thanks for coming through, man. Uh, just a quick recap on last week's episode, um, salute my brother Mpho Nkadimeng. Um, thanks for coming through king. Uh, I really enjoyed, um, Yeah, man. It was really interesting, especially talking about August house.[00:00:50] Um, how they've um, yeah, I mean, they've cut down on the events and that stuff, that stuff. Um, yo man, the art world is really been given, uh, as, as really. Yeah, well, I've been talking about it consistently. So, you know, we've really been dealt a terrible hand in this pandemic, but, um, no worries like, there's some of us that is trying, we are evolving with the time.[00:01:13] So it's not all that doom and gloom. It's not great, but yo man, there's a lot of us that's pushing really hard and trying to, and trying to come up with solutions. So the only way you're going to find out on what's happened, what solutions. And how artists are evolving in this post covid world is to tune into Wesley peppers, art lexica, because we feature the freshest dopest talent, across well, actually across the world, but with a special focus on, on, on, on the SADC countries, because.[00:01:41] Well, we just the best. So that's just how it is. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, uh, moving on to today's episode up. Okay. Just before I get on, like we were actually, I was actually supposed to talk to, um, Skhosana, uh, another friend of mine today, but yo man, Telkom or Eskom there was load shedding and yeah. So we'll be talking to him next week, but I'll tell you a little bit about that in the outro.[00:02:03] So moving on to today's episode, I'm talking to Banele Skosana he is a fashion designer. Based in Tembisa, and his brand is called blessed clothing. We're going to be unpacking everything. Um, we spoke, uh, on WhatsApp earlier in the week and he was really pumped and really amped to talk about how they been evolving over the, uh, you know, in this post COVID world.[00:02:26] So definitely looking forward to that so we’re going to be touching on everything about the brand, how it got founded, uh, uh, you know, um, it's design, well, the processes behind its design, uh, and, and, and, and that type of thing, and its demographics. And of course, how, um, they've been evolving in this post covid world, because if there's something, um, I haven't, I haven't actually featured too many.[00:02:47] Yeah, this is probably the first fashion designer I've got on the show. Um, I'm featuring on this platform, but, um, I mean, and I definitely got my eye on a few more and it's something I've been, I've been wanting to do actually, um, do something, you know, I'm also very, very interested in fashion and I do follow it quite closely.[00:03:03] So yeah, man, this is going to be really cool for me as well. Just see what these guys are up to man. And, um, yeah man, if you want to know how artists, just another, uh, thing, I think I just need to say there. If you want to know how artists are adapting to this pandemic. There's only one place to listen to that.[00:03:20] And that's Wesley Pepper’s art lexica. And because yeah, we feature the dopest freshest content in the world, but with a specific eye on the SADC countries. And we want to know, we want to tell the world, like we are not just all. Yeah, sure. COVID is gave us a heavy...