Beautiful fashionista, Khanyi Dhlomo, has done it again and she always does everything in style.
On the 24th of July 2013, she opened a high-end store, called 'Luminance' in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, South Africa, and despite the controversy surrounding the funding for her latest venture, the store stocks international brands like Oscar de la Renta, Giorgio Armani and Marc Jacobs, to name but a few.
My question is, isn't it time we had a 'Luminance' store in Windhoek, too? Khanyi Dhlomo saw the potential for a posh emporium in her hometown of Johannesburg, and created a solution for a nagging issue...most of us want top, international brands available locally and at the moment, we have to fly out of the country, to Europe or the Americas to purchase our branded goodies. It's genuinely inconvenient, isn't it? I mean imagine the entire schlepp...passport, the flight, the hotels, customs, etc.
Here's hoping a birdie will chirp in her ear about the women in Namibia...
Give us risk-takers and solution-providers like Khanyi Dhlomo any day, who take the time to assess and take under consideration the needs and lifestyles of affluent, working women. She brings couture brands and great goods to her customers.
According to Dhlomo, the Luminance Private Label brand will have a positive effect on the local clothing industry, in South Africa: 'We have contracted a Johannesburg factory that is female-owned and run to manufacture 50% of the range. What's more, they will have an ongoing engagement with the Italian manufacturers who create the other 50% of the garments.'
That's what I call private enterprise with a conscience. We should have a 'Luminance' store in Windhoek, we'll spend locally, create employment while looking fabulous and feeling like a million dollars!
On the 24th of July 2013, she opened a high-end store, called 'Luminance' in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, South Africa, and despite the controversy surrounding the funding for her latest venture, the store stocks international brands like Oscar de la Renta, Giorgio Armani and Marc Jacobs, to name but a few.
My question is, isn't it time we had a 'Luminance' store in Windhoek, too? Khanyi Dhlomo saw the potential for a posh emporium in her hometown of Johannesburg, and created a solution for a nagging issue...most of us want top, international brands available locally and at the moment, we have to fly out of the country, to Europe or the Americas to purchase our branded goodies. It's genuinely inconvenient, isn't it? I mean imagine the entire schlepp...passport, the flight, the hotels, customs, etc.
Here's hoping a birdie will chirp in her ear about the women in Namibia...
Give us risk-takers and solution-providers like Khanyi Dhlomo any day, who take the time to assess and take under consideration the needs and lifestyles of affluent, working women. She brings couture brands and great goods to her customers.
According to Dhlomo, the Luminance Private Label brand will have a positive effect on the local clothing industry, in South Africa: 'We have contracted a Johannesburg factory that is female-owned and run to manufacture 50% of the range. What's more, they will have an ongoing engagement with the Italian manufacturers who create the other 50% of the garments.'
That's what I call private enterprise with a conscience. We should have a 'Luminance' store in Windhoek, we'll spend locally, create employment while looking fabulous and feeling like a million dollars!
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