Our Story

We started CHEFOBEAR as collaborative effort to make time for our friendship daily whilst working together towards a goal that we felt could provide a touch of flavour to our community.

We are two South Africans with different backgrounds and vastly different life experience from journies that took us all over the world. Our journeys came together again when we both found ourselves in China. This is where we decided we need to create something that can bring value to our communities around us as well as allow people from different cultures to come together.

“What, within our current means, can we innovate that people around us will enjoy?”

“在我们目前的手段中，我们可以创造什么能让我们周围的人喜欢?”

It was from this conundrum that the creative collaboration, Chefobear, was born. This was the question that we were facing and thus we fell upon fashion because of it’s transformative nature and it’s ability to bring people and concepts together.

Like Baloo the spirit of our brand is friendship, collaboration and community. We feel that “it’s a necessity” reflect’s that sentiment and really encapsulates the spirit of our venture. Unlike the Disney version of Baloo (but exactly like Kipling’s original version), we feel leadership and diligence are quintessential characteristics of success and those are elements we hope to reflect in our brand and any of the work we do.

 

We are inspired by the world we live in and we aspire to reflect that through our work.

我们受到我们生活在周围世界的启发，我们希望通过我们的工作来反映这一点

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If these sentiments resonate with you, you are welcome to join the CHEFOBEAR community!