ballo x Wanda Lephoto launch

​Inspired by the radicalism of Miles Davis, his restraint, his rhythm, his refusal to repeat himself.

Davis understood that innovation doesn't always arrive loudly. Sometimes it lives in the pause. In the space between notes. In knowing exactly what to leave out.

Wanda Lephoto has always been interested in what exists beneath the surface, the histories, objects and cultural fragments that shape how we see ourselves. Ballo builds frames from the ground up using plant-based bioacetate, rooted in Africa and made as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

Together, the two meet somewhere between memory and modernity, rhythm and form, Johannesburg and Ballo city.

The result is a frame informed by Davis's way of seeing: uncompromising, minimal, expressive without excess. A silhouette familiar, but never quite what you expect.

Not made to follow a trend. Made to become part of the archive.

Limited run. Handcrafted. Made to outlast the moment that made it.