Luxury goods brands like Louis Vuitton, Prada, Hermés and Gucci are showing signs of growth in this tight economic climate and this is good news for the South African Exotic Leather Industry. Based in Oudtshoorn, Klein Karoo International (KKI), supplies 65% of the world’s Ostrich products. Most of these products are fashioned into “must have” [...]
Another Elizabeth Galloway alumnus, Tarien Malherbe, is no stranger to Cape Town Fashion Week, having shown her Non-European label before. Her clothes have always been about easy-to-wear garments, with a strong focus on fits and cuts. At this year’s Mercedes-Benz Cape Town Fashion Week, she continued that legacy with a range grounded in neutrals, with [...]
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town 2013: Kim Gush Highlights from SDR Photo on Vimeo. If you enjoyed our last blog post on fashion design-er Kim Gush's debut at MBFWCT, you will enjoy this this video clip of her MBFWCT Next Generation presentation. Credits Show produced by: Jen Deiner of Group of Creatives Filmed by: Charles [...]
It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway. This year was a particularly good one for Elizabeth Galloway alumni at Mercedes-Benz Cape Town Fashion Week. First up, let’s take a look at Kim Gush’s range. Kim showed as part of AFI Next Generation – her work was an interpretation of how she sees the industry as [...]
In South African Fashion production, why is it that locally produced clothes often cost more than their made-in-China counterparts? And what effect does this have on the South African fashion industry? Okay, so this is a very broad, contentious and complex topic. We don’t propose to have answers, but some of the questions posed below [...]
This past April Anmari Honiball made her SA Fashion Week debut, showing as part of the Lufthansa Best Collections. Anmari graduated from Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design in 2010. Her graduate collection was awarded "Best Range on Show" by local design icons Robyn Cooke and Haldane Martin.
Cape Town's Design Indaba EXPO is a cultural mix of all things design related in South Africa. The week long design festival brings together creative s not only from South Africa but attracts a strong international contingency. We at Elizabeth Galloway feel strongly about the role and importance of Design Indaba and as such have encouraged our [...]