Fashion
Everyone
1 hour 50 min
TSHEPO 'MASTER JEAN MAKER' TEACHES
Designing your own story
What does it mean to design your story? What does it require to take your dreams into your own hands and build your destiny, your legacy and your own eponymous fashion brand from scratch?
- Party tricks with the Scissors
- How to rock yellow socks - red dungarees too
- How to network like a BOSS
- Some hot tips about denim
- Location Kudos: Victoria Yards in Johannesburg
Square up your crown, this designer’s coming for you!
Africa’s denim king, Tshepo ‘The Jean Maker’, dives deep into his blow-up story of boy-turned-boss. Discover what it takes to craft a denim kingdom and design your own label in the fashion world.
FREE Intro: Wear Your Crown
11min
A real South African story of a real South African hustler. Learn how Tshepo got his name, earned his fame, and why denim is his designer legacy.
EP 1: Invisible Threads
13min
Tshepo takes us behind-the-wings of his atelier to set straight the misconception that ‘machines make clothing’. Nah-uh, people do, bro.
EP 2: The Stories We Tell
14min
Discover the meaning behind Tshepo’s logo, and the women who shaped him into a local icon with global designs.
EP 3: A Man and His Hands
8min
Learn what it takes to work with your hands, and to appreciate that your art and craft is a homegrown, handmade version of your best self.
EP 4: The Scissors, the Iron and the Tape Measure
13min
A good fashion designer has an arsenal of tools always at-the-ready. Tshepo talks us through the tools and tricks of the trade.
EP 5: The 3 Fs
10min
Get up close and technical with Tshepo, as he invites us into his philosophy of the three Fs: Fabric, Fit and Finish.
EP 6: Sew It Slow
11min
When your first prick of bankruptcy is in Grade 5, it takes GUTS to pick yourself up again. Tshepo gives advice from his own harsh business experiences.
EP 7: Stitching Your Story
10min
What does it take to transform a childhood dream in Tsakane into your name blown-up in lights and visible from the William Nicol?
EP 8: Who is Meghan Markle
15min
Lean in as Tshepo shows us how putting people at the centre of the work, is a blazing method of magic that’ll open doors.
EP 9: We, the People
5min
Tshepo offers us exclusive insight into his jean collection. A line sewn together with hope, faith and deep-seated need to bring a nation together.
About your Coach
Tshepo 'Master Jean Maker'
With humble beginnings growing up in Lydenburg, Tshepo Mohlala has worked hard to turn his dusty denim daydreams into a powerful African fashion label with international standing! He has fitted the likes of Khuli Chana, DJ Oskido, Cassper Nyovest and Meghan Markle (to name, but a few), and won the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards for the Trans-Seasonal Category in 2020.
GET STARTED →Other Playboxers also liked
Tap into the life experiences of your local heroes to learn skills only they could teach.
Testimonials
See how Playbox has changed these inspiring individuals’ lives
Frequently asked questions
For all your how-to’s and where-to’s of your Playbox experience, jump to any question you want to ask. We’re here.