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Monday, 17 October 2016

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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5th November 2016

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Fashion Criticism by Neo Tshebe

Essence of a heroin collectionNeo Tshebe

Prudence Kau , the alumni of North West School of Design on the 6^th November 2015 for the theme of Pinnacles of fashion(Past Present Future) at the Platinum Fashion Festival she interpreted the essence of heroine. She chose unique models to be the face of her ready to wear collection for the buyers. And she chose to represent heroic women all over to express the theme: Essence Of Heroine.

Prudence Kau had a feeling of strength and power.

‘’We workout and we like to show it off’’, it’s the heroine attitude. Prudence Kau’s collection, fabric and everything has sense of royalty and luxury that embodies the sensibility with a heroine attitude. The fabric/cloth fashioned in a good quality performance and has rich details. The Collection had peplum, long floor length skirt, shades of orange, rose quartz colour and it’s the way to create emphasize. Exaggerated sleeves.

Has balance of hemlines and necklines, the proportion of the design and added accessory look good together. Design is applied well, each element enhances the others, rather than distracting from the design.

As this is the buyer’s collection, the goal is for consumers to buy as many garments as possible. The looks are suitable for a heroic movie wardrobe. They are just perfect and are going to be memorable. Because now we are starting to see more strong female characters that challenge gender roles by refusing to sit in the corner and look pretty. –Maybe in pop fiction.

Fashion Criticism by Megan Nicholls

“Up Town Cool”

By Megan Nicholls

The talented designer Mpho Mphuti took the runway by storm with his 2015/2016 Spring Summer Ready to Wear collection. This collection gives you the sense of very sporty, yet very street savvy garments with a dash of elegance. The theme “Up Town Cool” represents your daily outfits with some kind of twist on the ordinary, it portrays the ideals of a modern young woman.

This colour scheme of the collection is what really brings the collection together. Mpho knew how to grab his audience’s attention with his bold yet minimalistic colours , such as, moss green, shock white, shock black, cassis, shock pink, pure orange and a few more. The necklines differ from plunging necklines, to a chokers to straight necklines, giving each design a look of its own without taking it away from the whole. By using shorts, skirts and dresses each with a different length, he did not limit himself to only one style. Mphuti used different stitching techniques that suits the fabric and the look.

The collection is very trend forward and accepted by the public. His collection is being sold on iWearNwsd, a student based online store that allows students to sell their one of a kind garments to the public. This collection could also be sold in retail stores that targets young woman between the ages of 18-25.

Mphuti defiantly did his research before hand, looking at his target market, the runway trends and keeping an eye on what young woman wear on a day to day basis. I must say, being a young woman myself this collection is defiantly a winner. By having overall knowledge before starting to design his collection, he did not just intrigue and surprise the audience and media, but he is also building himself a name in the buyers circle.

Fashion Criticism by Joane Schoeman

A sense of modernity By JOane Schoeman

Stripes stormed the spring/summer 2016 runways in every style you can possibly imagine—some ran horizontal while others vertical; there were thick lines and super skinny ones, too. Stripes don't necessarily have to walk the straight and narrow path.

At the Platinum fashion festival in 2015 Sindy Marè made her collection one to remember. Making use of Asymmetric black-and-white stripes. Staying on the fashion cycle with the classic colours black and white. Her stripes went in every direction. I can definitely see that she did her research properly getting a head start on the trends that will be hitting stores in the next season.

A LE MODE LE DAME reached her target market through young affluent woman between the age of 23 and 40. Her collection flows in very well with the abstract designs and Asymmetrical black and white lines, which ties her whole collection as one. The printing was very special and unique from the other designers. She got her inspiration from a tiger that was hunted down and killed. She really captured the audience`s attention with her ready-to-wear collection.

I kind of feel like this collection is something a Kardashian would wear because of their stylist, Monica Rose. She always has them wearing midi-length dresses and skirts. So this collection is perfect for their wardrobe. The details on the designs are just as good: the long flare points on the sides, the halter necks, the off- the- shoulder tops and the round necklines. We have already seen some of these designs in store and online.

Fashion Criticism By Nadine Milne

New flow on IndigoByNadine Milne

Jana Fourie

took that moment and claimed it hers – the freedom to walk the runway barefoot and in that this nelipot designer herself became the final piece to her collection that night. Her approach to her collection is unconventional and primarily marketed for the fashion forward late teens and young adults.

That is a good thing.

As for jana’s inspiration to her collection, voicing indigo children are the new age concept some definitely find eerie. The second part of her inspiration that stamps the whole of the concepts is, space. Finding nebula photography to inspire and capture the beautiful colours and effects of interstellar on her garments is interesting. The galaxy detail on Jana garments forms a soft flow in the collection. One comment from a design student who attended and show cased at the Platinum Fashion Festival 2015 said: “Stylistically the elements are very creative in terms of the fabric dying methods, but it’s not your everyday kind of look. It is very risqué.”

She work out the sartorial effects and this made her work stand out both on and off the runway, amid the other vast collections that was sure to fill the air November 2015 at the Platinum Fashion Festival and even now for any buyer, moved by Jana’s intriguing collection.

Jana Fourie’s daring and soft feminine ready-to-wear garments were made from white shade of scuba and soft sheer fabrics. To

create the unique galaxy inspired details she had to dye the fabrics in hues of blues, purples and pinks. Combining flairs, tubular and hourglass silhouettes to fit the “out of this world” concept. These looks predominantly inspired by the 70’s and 90’s style, referencing the past that incorporates a grungy and bohemian feel.

It is still a kind of beautiful, to witness the designers bona fide personality on such an occasion. You don’t find many designers these days that is willing to show the spectator their identity, a transparency of who they are behind their designs. Jana became part of her collection – the final look. “being able to see true beauty in others and everywhere around your life, the door is open to create more and better”.