Karoo Winter Wool Festival Student Competition

In 2024, the Karoo Winter Wool Festival (KWWF) partnered with Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion to host an intercollegiate competition aimed at inspiring young designers to explore local resources and nature through knitwear. The brief was to select a photograph of a Karoo landscape and design a knitted garment inspired by it. I [...]

May 22nd, 2025|Fashion Blog|

OPEN DAY JUNE 2025

Join us for our first Open Day event of the year. The event will consist out of an introduction session, a Q&A session and lastly a tour of our facilities. Guests will have the opportunity to meet some of our team members, get a feel for campus as well as ask [...]

May 20th, 2025|Fashion Blog|

Imaterial Field Trip

On the 16th of May our BA 2 class went to visit the textile printing facility, Imaterial Textile Printers (Instagram: @imaterial_textiles) in Maitland. This trip was organised to assist them with a swimwear and co-ordinate design project with the theme "Joyful Fruit" in which they are exploring different patterns and prints. During their [...]

May 16th, 2025|Fashion Blog|

New* Short Course – FBIP

FASHION BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROGRAMME Initiated by Academy director, Inez Shaw, FBIP offers entrepreneurial mentorship to business owners. “You are your business so you have to take care of yourself to have a healthy business.” FBIP aims to provide support to entrepreneurs who are negotiating the start or continuation of their own business. [...]

January 15th, 2025|Fashion Blog|

Academy Upgrades 2024

Our new renewable power system - The "sew" must go on! Up to now, the big talking point has been the completion of our renewable power system. At the end of last year, Winelands Solar installed solar panels on our roof space, enabling us to add battery storage to the existing inverters. [...]

July 18th, 2024|Fashion Blog|

Graduating class of 2023

Penned by Juané Venter (BA Graduate) & Gaby McDonald (Diploma Graduate) On the 22nd day of March 2024, we saw a testament to how EG graduates, draped in black gowns and caps, transformed from raw fibers into well-spun thread. This bittersweet evening was commemorated with tears, laughs, reuniting embraces and warm farewells. Just like [...]

May 22nd, 2024|Fashion Blog|
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