Day 3 Continued
Yes I know this has dragged on longer than you and I have hoped.
Let me quickly highlight some more favourites at SA Fashion week.
Lisp showed us how the ultimate groupie/rock chick dresses. With leather, silver bead embellishments, faux furs and velvets. I feel like I’m cheering on my favourite rock band just by looking at these sexy outfits.
My personal favourite SA designer, Abigail Getz, used the Johannesburg Art Gallery to host the various 1950’s A-line dresses in various checkered and floral fabrics. Betz stayed true to her feminine signature without failing to stretch her boundaries, "The shapes in those times were very wide, very luxurious and warm," said Abigail Betz.
Something Betz doesn’t often do is play with black, and this year she experimented with it. "The world is not perfect, there is a little bit of darkness in our lives and I just wanted to bring that through," said the petite designer.
Day 4
The theme for day 4 was ready-to-wear as designers showed us practical day and evening wear.
Bongiwe Walaza showed us her confused vision of “Victorian era and Xhosa dress”.
Avant’s collection was highly covetable, commercial and had good cuts. The dynamic duo is definitely a name to watch.
Stiaan Louw showed us an interestingly cottony menswear collection.
Thula Sindi sealed the night at the Johannesburg Art Gallery with updates of clothes he has done in the past. “The idea was a funeral,” he said, “It is what my clients would wear were they to come to my funeral.” Standouts included his usual twist dress, and a polka-dot trenchcoat in a collection with a formal inclination. “They,” he said in reference to the clients who would be attending his said funeral, “would be wearing futuristic classics; things that I would have been known for.”
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