Seth Shezi moves between fashion, food and art with quiet precision, redefining what it means to live a life led by taste.
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Born in Kwazulu-Natal and now based between Cape Town and London, Seth Shezi has built a career that sits at the intersection of style, food and culture. Although none of those labels quite encompass him entirely, he moves through all three with a quiet certainty.
He’s the creative director of his own life, a man who has turned taste into his language and livelihood. From being named one of South Africa’s best-dressed men to becoming a respected voice in the dining scene, his rise has been less about reinvention and more about refinement.
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Over late-afternoon drinks at Tannin in Cape Town, that sense of control softens. It’s his choice of setting – outdoor seating where the city moves around you. He says he likes to sit here, watch the foot traffic, take it all in. His drink of choice arrives: a classic Negroni.
It’s not long before the planned structure of the interview dissolves. When Seth talks about food – really talks about it – you find yourself pulled in. He connects flavour to memory, fashion to feeling, art to everyday life, with an ease that feels instinctive rather than rehearsed.
The conversation drifts, as it always does, towards home.
Where are you based now? Where do you feel most yourself? It’s an easy question, but he doesn’t answer it lightly. Home, he says, isn’t fixed. It’s not about geography; it’s about where the work happens and where the ideas take shape. Right now, that place is London.
“It’s where my art lives,” he says with a chuckle.
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Words by: Rughsaar Bibi Ismail
Photography: Zhann Solomons
Styling: Mia-Tess Smith
