2016 Platinum Fashion Festival

Its that time of the year again... Fashion show time! Students are working night and day on their collections to make the Platinum Fashion Festival a success once more. As the show is a mere three weeks away we take a look at what the 2016 PFF entails. 

Platinum Fashion Festival Website

The Centurion Academy Hair Marathon.
12h00

Centurion Academy hair students and alumni collaborates with first years from NWSD to create an avant-garde hairstyle to go with their Style Tribe looks for the first year installations. Here with every hairstylist have 5 looks to style within 40 mins.
Free of Admission.

First Year's Fashion Installation.
13h00

NWSD first year students showcase their Style Tribe looks finished of with the hairstylist final touch. At this show the third years also showcase their 3D Designs, Part time students their Style Tribes looks and second years the Little Vintage Dress.

First Years Installation
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Models Backstage

Second Year Couture Collections.

18h30

The second years show forms part of the grand event of the Platinum Fashion Festival. Second Years showcases their 4 look couture collections based on the theme Tribal Fusion" This shows includes a collection by Anel Botha, the principal surprise, guest designers 2016, bridal gowns, the Gert Johan Coetzee bursary announcement as well as prize giving.

Second Years Couture Collections
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Third Years Ready-To-Wear Buyers Collections

Third years showcase their 10 look buyers collections to buyers, media, blogger, friends and family as part of their graduation. These collections are designed surrounding a precise target market and price point category making it possible for students to sell their garments to the public. Many of these garments will be available on our online store iWearNWSD as part of the "See-Now-Buy-Now'' project, where you could shop straight from the runway. The second years will also showcase their menswear and guest fashion comm student collections.

Third Years Buyers Collections

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Media, Red Carpet and Networking

The Platinum Fashion Festival not only showcases the students work but is also filled with live entertainment, celebs, a networking lounge and a red carpet where photographers and media film an take photos. Here you can enjoy a drink, mingle with friends and network.

This year we are featuring a performance and Meet & Greet session with local artist and The Voice SA contestant  Almur Marais

Karla Bosh Singing at the PFF

Brutal Fruit "Slushie" Station

Interviews on the Red Carpet

Friends & Family on the Red Carpet

Simeon Kriel from "Alleen na December"
&
Outlaw Empire

The Voice star Almur Marais

Want to watch all three shows? We have the Platinum Package that includes all three shows at lower costs.

Platinum Fashion Festival Event

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Don't miss this fashion event! Save the date...

5th November 2016

Why Students Chose North West School of Design

Why students chose North West School of Design

It is that time of year that NWSD, like many other fashion colleges are inundated with applications to register for fulltime fashion studies.  All these fashion hopefuls have one concern in common – how to choose the right fashion college?  Fashion training, as a specialized field in higher education can end up costing much more than more conventional and regular training programmes and because they are buying something that is life determining, future fashion students must rely on the credibility of the institution they are applying to. 

NWSD ranks and measures their quality of fashion education by means of student & graduate reviews.  NWSD students were asked why they chose this college, and their responses will give you an idea of this institution’s track record.

1.                   A Choice in Fashion

The best thing about fashion is the wealth of opportunities Careers in Fashion it offers, but school leavers rarely grasp the vastness of the global fashion industry and they, like many believe that fashion training only leads to a career as a fashion designer.  NWSD introduces first year students to the global scope of the industry so that they can, after six months of studying fashion make a well informed choice of continuing in the field of Fashion Design or moving over to the Fashion Management & CommunicationCourse. 

2.                   International Qualifications

North West School of Design is internationally recognized with a globalized curriculum. NWSD fulltime courses have certificate, diploma, first degree, degree, honours and masters degree exit levels based on the International City & Guilds qualifications stature.

NORTH WEST SCHOOL OF DESIGN is an approved (registered and accredited) CITY AND GUILDS. (Centre no: 848446). City & Guilds London Institute was founded in 1878 and is a well known and respected name worldwide in vocational education and training and commands respect from candidates and employers alike. Because NORTH WEST SCHOOL OF DESIGN offer diploma and degree courses that ultimately lead to Foreign Qualifications, they are accredited with City and Guilds, and not with a SETA, SAQA, CHE or DOE.

3.                   Online Learning System

NWSD leads the way in fashion education as the first SA fashion college to merge contact learning and teaching with an integrated online learning system.  The NWSD learning management system is a an online system for managing training and educational records to distributing course work, manuals, class schedules, assignment dates and calendars. 

The NWSD online learning system lower costs, allows for faster delivery of teaching materials, aids students in more effective learning and has a lower environmental impact.

4.                   100 Years Combined Experience

NWSD has recently celebrated their 16^th birthday and with 16 years of educating experience and the academic staff of NWSD holds more than 100 years of experience within the fashion industry, with a good mix of couture, retail, mass production and entrepreneurial studies.

5.                   Always Evolving

“With their hands on approach and care, the NWSD is the best place to go if you want to make it as a designer in this cut-throat industry. They don't waste time when teaching you the best techniques and business skill. With a principal that never stops bettering her knowledge and experience and a very capable staff, it all comes down to the bottom line: The business of Fashion!" Gert Johan Coetzee - Celebrity Designer & Specialist couturier NWSD Graduate Class of 2004 & 2005.

A college is ranked by its staff, students and research.  NWSD can continually evolve because of ongoing industry research and keeping abreast of the latest industry developments.  The Fashion Modules and courses that were lectured in 2014 is totally different from modules that were lectured in 2003. 

6.                   Alumni

NWSD alumni are this institution’s greatest success stories who have a permanent relationship with the principal. 

Gert Johan Coetzee

Anel Botha

Sylvester Falata

 Mercia Itumeleng Matlhaku

Jose de Canha

Kobus Rautenbach Couture

Eulogoe Zeloo 

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7.                   Fashion Shows

NWSD has recently hosted their 15^th annual graduation fashion show by introducing the first Platinum Fashion Festival.  This sold out event testifies of great community support as well as media and industry support.  Students all agree that the most remarkable thing of the 2014 Platinum Fashion Festival was the vibrancy of the audience which confirmed the great success of the shows. 

The 2015 Platinum Fashion Festival is already booked as a 2 day event which includes not only student collections but will also create a platform for emerging designers, a food fair and a designer’s fair.  The objective is to host a fashion festival for fashion lovers and not necessarily only fashion leaders.

8.                   The NWSD Family

NWSD embraces an extensive community of diverse people.  Students come from all four corners of SA as well as Namibia and as far as Madagascar.  Because fashion is all around us, the dynamic world of fashion is not limited to SA’s bigger cities.   Because Klerksdorp is central, safer than larger cities and offers more affordable accommodation, parents are not as reluctant to send their young adults to an out-of-town college. 

9.                   Work Hard, Play Hard

There is a lot of great things about NWSD’s world of fashion – the excitement, the creativity, the buzz, but don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s all glitz and glam.  NWSD students develop a culture of productivity and they soon adopt the creed of Work Hard, and Play Hard. 

For more reading:

·         NWSD Success Story

·         How To Apply

·         News & Blogs

·         NWSD Videos

Platinum Fashion Festival - NWSD Celebrating 16 Years of Education

The first Platinum Fashion Festival presented by North West School of Design on 8 November 2014, attested show stopping designs at this sold out event. 

The Platinum Fashion Festival celebrated North West School of Design’s 15th annual graduate collections as well as fashioned a platform for celebrating this institution’s 16th birthday. 

610 guests attended the gala event, with an array of VIP’S & CELEBS seated in front row.  

Click here to meet some of the VIP’s and celebs

Click here for BEHIND THE SCENES look

The Platinum Fashion Festival started with the OLD MUTUAL BUYER’S COLLECTIONS where 3rd year students showcased their summer 2014/15 Ready To Wear Collections

Click Here to see the end results

The gala event also consisted of the AUDI COUTURE COLLECTIONS featuring 2nd year student’s red carpet looks – Here is the link to the couture collections

NWSD 1st year students had to design and make a corset design with an Avant Garde Theatrical headpiece.  This FASHION INSTALLATION was showcased on a turntable featuring live music.  

Here you can view the student’s themes and final installation pieces.  

The success of the event was further manifested with well wishes and top REVIEWS from guests, celebs and parents. 

Read the Reviews here 

If you were a guest at the Platinum Fashion Festival, you can go to this link to TAG YOURSELF. 

Another highlight of the evening was when GERT JOHAN COETZEE announced the winner of his annual fashion bursary.  Congrats to Christopher Gill!  Click here to read all about it

We would like to give a HUGE thanks to all of the sponsors. This event would not have been possible without you.