TALKING TRENDS
House and Leisure sat down with three of South African media’s celebrated journalists and editors at tile and slab retailer Continua’s Eclipse table in the International Slab Sales warehouse in Cape Town to discuss exactly what a trend is, or isn’t – and ask whether trends, as we know them, even still exist. Story editor Garreth van Niekerk chatted with Kelly Fung, Zanele Kumalo and Gary Cotterell about this complex topic – and whether we should believe it the next time someone says, ‘That’s totally on-trend.’ Read some of the highlights from the conversation…
Garreth: There’s a lot of disparity when it comes to the idea of a trend. How would each of you interpret a trend right now?
For me, a
