Some stories don't start in a sketchbook — they start on skin. Candice Soetzenberg — Candy to everyone who knows her — didn't study fashion. She lived it. For years, she stood in front of the camera as the face of other designers' dreams, turning their visions into reality with her body, her movement, her presence. But something kept surfacing — a styling instinct too sharp for the brief, a way of inhabiting a garment that made the clothes answer to her, not the other way around. She wasn't just wearing fashion. She was rewriting it from the inside. Candy Venom is what happens when a woman who spent her career becoming other people's muse finally becomes her own. Thousands of hours on set taught Candice what no classroom could: how fabric transforms a body, how the right cut can change the way you breathe, how a single piece of clothing can shift the energy of an entire room. She didn't learn fashion from the outside — she felt it from within. And that feeling — intimate, earned, undeniable — became the DNA of everything Candy Venom creates. Launched in June 2026 from Cape Town.