UPDATE: Turns Out Nelson Mandela Is Not Involved in that ‘Nelson Mandela’ Clothing Line After All

So, remember how a Nelson Mandela-themed clothing line, named after the former South African president’s Robben Island prison ID, launched last year? Remember how weird that was? And how it was even weirder that Mandela was reportedly somehow even involved with the line? Well, turns out he’s not. James Cecil, president of Cadence Communications, which Read more →

Thursday September 22nd, 2011

Nelson Mandela Has a Clothing Line, Stella McCartney May Collaborate

by Dhani Mau

No, the humanitarian and former South African president is not making a career change into fashion in his ’90s. However, he is the central inspiration for a new South African apparel brand called 46664, which was Nelson Mandela‘s prison ID number and is also the name of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s AIDS awareness campaign.

The men’s and women’s brand has strong ties to Mandela’s legacy and, thus, to South Africa’s history, but also its future, as a sustainable way to benefit the country’s struggling clothing and textile manufacturing industries, as well as the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s charitable endeavors.

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