Now into its 4th year, African Fashion International presented its Fastrack young designer mentorship programme. Fastrack is designed to develop new brands by helping recent graduates show on Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This exposes graduates to potential buyers and creates a networking opportunity with local and international media representatives. Charna Gentle graduated from Elizabeth Galloway Academy of [...]
It is a rare event to see fashion forward men's wear on the ramp at South African fashion shows. When it comes to Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design’s alumna Kim Gush you can take it for granted that fashion forward men's wear is what you are going to get. Gush is a designer with [...]
Award winning Elizabeth Galloway alumna Tarien Malherbe is set to take part in the inaugural Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town which takes place in the Cape Town International Convention Centre from the 25th to 28th of July 2012. African Fashion International in collaboration with the Cape Town Fashion Council is presenting this specialized showcase for [...]
The importance of Tokyo as one of the fashion world’s Street Style Capitals, has us keeping a close eye on their Fashion Weeks. For a country that has suffered greatly under natural disasters recently, Japan has been presenting some remarkably upbeat, joyous fashion in their Spring/Summer collections. The international influences of worldwide trends such as [...]
We are pleased to announce that one of our alumni, Kim Gush, has walked away with one of the top spots at the AFI Foschini Fastrack event at this year’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Johannesburg . Her trend forward menswear collection showed hints of a "post-apocalyptic-ninja" style. As one of four winners, Kim receives a [...]
Head of the Institute, Elizabeth Galloway and Derek Geddes, HOD Design and Innovation, had the honour of being invited to the Maputo Fashion Week in Mozambique last December to judge the Emerging Creatives Awards. There were two fashion shows displaying the contestants’ collections.Participating countries included Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola, Kenya, Namibia, Brazil, Portugal and South Africa. [...]