But while audiences came to know her through fashion campaigns, beauty partnerships and lifestyle content, Langa says design was always the thread running through her life. “My true passion and interest lies in fashion and design,” she says. After more than 10 years working in the digital space, she found herself asking a difficult question: What comes next?
For Langa, the answer was not simply about changing careers. It was about finding a creative practice that could grow alongside her life. “I wanted to go into an industry that would allow me to evolve as a person,” she explains.
“I always wondered what happens if I’m a mom. How would I continue creating the same kind of content as I moved through different phases of life?” The question eventually led her away from fashion and towards interiors, although the seeds had been planted years earlier. As a child, she constantly imagined redesigning her bedroom.
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Later, after buying her own home, friends increasingly turned to her for decorating advice. Before long, she was designing their spaces too, without charging a cent. It eventually became clear that what had started as instinct deserved professional training.
Langa moved to London to study interior design, spending three years immersing herself in design history, theory and practice before returning to South Africa early last year. “I knew this was something that needed to be executed at home,” she says. Returning to South Africa was not simply a matter of bringing international skills back home. It was also about questioning why so much of contemporary interior design continues to borrow from European and Asian aesthetics while overlooking the richness of African visual culture.
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