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also a panellist at the 2022 2nd Textiles
and Fashion World Conference, Tianjin
China organised by the China Textile and
Apparel Education Society (CTAES) on a
paper titled Improving higher education
and promoting research in the clothing,
textiles, leather, and footwear industry of
South Africa.
Dr Mbatha has been contributing to
the clothing industry and communities
through motivational talks with
university leaders, radio shows, Guest
Judge on a TV Hair competition show,
and Pick n Pay’s Future of Wear 2021/22
Facilitator. Dr Mbatha is working with
a clothing and textiles hub based in the
North West mining belt to develop the
clothing industry through a regional
system of innovation strategy to achieve Nisha Kanabar
sustainable economic and socioeconomic
development.
Dr Mbatha contributes to the such as Elle, Glamour, and Marie Claire. commercial departments of American
academic community as a moderator and She has collaborated with numerous Vogue, Vogue India, and Style.com in the
postgraduate examiner of both public and luxury brands including Dolce & Middle East (now Vogue Arabia). Her
private fashion-related institutions. He is Gabbana, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. experience across international markets
an editorial board member of the Journal She is currently the Fashion Director for fuelled a desire to channel her work into
of Science, Technology, Public Policy Wanted, Sunday Times Lifestyle, and her home continent’s contemporary and
and a reviewer for the African Journal Sowetan S Mag. Sharon edits the fashion luxury designer market, with a special
of Science, Technology, Innovation and magazine, The Edit. focus on diversity, digitisation, and
Development. He supervises Masters and storytelling.
Doctoral students on topics associated Nisha Kanabar Once the 2023 panel has completed
with his research focus area (sustainability, Nisha Kanabar is a curator, storyteller, the adjudication process, the finalists will
competitive advantage, National Systems and the founder of Industrie Africa. be announced on 14 November 2023.
of Innovation and 4IR). From Tanzania, Kanabar graduated The overall category winners will be
from Parsons School of Design in New announced at an award ceremony on 23
Sharon Armstrong York and went on to forge a career in November 2023 in Cape Town. dw
For over two decades, Sharon luxury fashion and publishing. With
Armstrong’s astute styling has graced over a decade of experience, she has held www.twyg.co.za
the pages of a range of publications formative positions in the editorial and

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