Intricately Designed, Intimately handcrafted, Timelessly Elegant
A designer’s canvas hangs across the light filled room. The rich led line displays the intricate story for all to see: Every detail is marked, every seam outlined, each element defined. The chosen material is softly molded into the design, the perfect match. The material is masterfully crafted to shape and from using skills from a bygone era: splitting, skiving and stitching. With gentle hands and keen eyes the sculpture is intimately created, and the designers plan revealed.
While Cape Cobra has earned international recognition for superior quality by some of the world’s most prestigious design houses and labels, it continues to remain intimately and pervasively connected to age-old handcraft tradition. This close connection is one of Cape Cobra’s greatest artisan strengths and helps give a great promise to the future of this unique organization. Despite its continued growth, Cape Cobra beholds a certain earthiness and solidarity that suggest honesty and respect for family, as no other organization does.
South Africa has the potential to become, in the very near future, one of the most compelling destinations in the world. Cape Cobra desires to use South Africa’s superlative raw materials, its immensely satisfying traditional handcraft, and its new wave of artisanal producers and imaginative but well-grounded designs to position our country at forefront of the international fashion market as a uniquely creative country that surpasses expectations time and time again. The old saying goes, “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same”, Nelson Mandela.
