"Ivy has shared many stories about fashion and what was stylish in Apartheid South Africa, she has also shed light on the kind of oppressive treatment that she was subjected to by her white employers."
"In the context of Apartheid South Africa, race significantly determined one's economic status in ways that attest to Fanon's observations that 'The cause is effect: You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.'"
"The unique aspect of the South African Apartheid situation lies in how economic realities, inequality, and vast disparities in lifestyle are systemic, permeating beyond merely the segregation of public spaces and extending into areas such as clothing."
"Two garments that have become associated with Black women in Apartheid South Africa and its afterlives are an apron and doek... the word 'domestic' has always been associated with Black women."
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