and styled product launch events for brands including Estée Lauder and Veuve Clicquot.
Her unique ability to find creative solutions through design and her entrepreneurial spirit drew her to retail and hospitality where, she says, she can assist “corporate clients design spaces that help narrate their brand and product story”. Her advice to aspiring designers? “Hang in there, back the process and it will work out. At least that’s what I tell myself every day,” she laughs.
“When I first saw Xibelani skirts, they reminded me of African ballet tutus, hence the name Tutu 2.0,” she explains. The lamp is strikingly poetic and wonderfully South African; Mjo describes it as the “reimagination of the ballerina tutu,” and a unique piece of art inspired by both Western and African fashion styles. It is also her favourite piece of work:
T Design Studio and Phillip Hollander and Stephen Wilson of Houtlander collaborated on the Hlabisa Bench; picture courtesy of Thabisa Mjo