It always gives us great joy to celebrate talented young people in the fashion industry. Today we speak to Lize Engelbrecht, owner of WOW, a clothing boutique in Stellenbosch. We met Lize when she came to deliver a guest talk at the close of our first year business studies module. […]
We believe that the fashion industry goes hand in hand with business thus we felt it was important to introduce the concept to our students. And since business is one of the subjects in our syllabus, we decided to invite a former student to speak to our current students about her experience as a business-owner [...]
Today's Alumni Focus is on Crystal Birch, who graduated in 2006 with a Diploma in Fashion Design. Crystal Birch has developed her skills and interest in visual language in fashion. She is slowly becoming one of South Africa's most sought-after stylist and milliners. Crystal has work extensively in fashion capitals New York, London, Los Angeles, Germany [...]
We were fortunate to recently host two of Cape Town's leading fashion bloggers, Fran de Viliers of OpenWardrobe.co.za and Marco Riekstins of ManofCloth.co.za Marco has been blogging for three years on his male-oriented blog Man of Cloth, where he gives the modern man advice on how to always look good and fashionable. He visited our [...]
African Fashion International (AFI), along with Foschini, launched the Foschini/AFI FASTRACK competition with the idea of starting a platform for talented young designers to kick-start their careers in the fashion retail industry. We are delighted to share the collections of two of the 6 students who took part in this year’s AFI Foschini FASTRACK. The students [...]
Judging by what we have seen this past winter season, we can confidently say that knitwear has made a massive comeback. After observing some great designs, we are excited to note that two of the students of Elizabeth Galloway Fashion Academy, Michelle Lotz and Kim Gush, have been contributing towards this lush trend. Michelle Lotz [...]