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.

PFF Student Fashion Installation

A Fashion Installation creates a platform for showcasing fashion through art.  

For the 2014 Platinum Fashion Festival, North West School of Design's Installation showcased 1st year student's corset designs by incorporating live music and theatrical head pieces with their interpretation of the theme - Dark Romance

Models and fashion created a live backdrop creating a splendid array of colour and movement while individual looks were showcased and displayed on a rotating turntable.

  

Behind the Scenes at The Platinum Fashion Festival

As we all know with any type of show there is always a show going on that we don't even realize, it's called

BEHIND THE SCENES. 

Have a look...

Stacey Grant (Show Director) being interviewed by Fashion District TV

Charles Oosthuizen & Karien Pretorius (Graduate NWSD 2007) with Christoff Swanepoel

Networking

The fashion media getting ready for the 1st Year Fashion Instillation

Prior to interviewing the Gert-Johan Coetzee 2014 finalists

Media doing final checks before the show commencement

Tweeting

Prudence Kau (Designer of the Year) being interviewed by Fashion District TV

Working on our Platinum Fashion Festival collections

We all know that is not easy to plan any event and it's even harder to design and make collections that are of high standard, on trend, sellable and that shows the fashion student's innovation and technical abilities.

Our students are dedicated to their work and they always have fun doing it! Here is a look at the steps the students of NWSD take to get to the end result.

Concept to Collection Presentation

Assessments of the 2nd year concept to collection for the upcoming Platinum Fashion Festival.  Presentations included preliminary design ideas based on market and trend research, fabric choices, inspiration boards and theme motivation.  

Production Planning

Each 3rd year’s collection is based on thorough trend and market research.  The final year fashion students also studied the different price point categories for fashion retail merchandise before they came up with designs for their own collections, ensuring their fabric choice, styles and price points all align well with the relevant price point category and retail market. 

Pattern Making

Pattern making plays the most important role of designing a well structured garment
and the NWSD students know exactly how to use the award winning X!act Patternmaker.

Fittings

In the final days before the Platinum Fashion Festival, all the models have to

come for a fittings to ensure every dress looks and feels amazing on the runway.  The garment is first tested in calico fabric before the final pattern is cut in the end fabric.  

Work Through The Night

The Annual Work Through the Night is tradition here at NWSD.  It is hard work, but

gives the students extra time for layout and cutting.   

Garment Construction

"Do it right the first time, then you won't have to unpick!", Marlene Oosthuizen 

Quality Assessments

Each garment is thoroughly inspected by lecturers and students are constantly advised on techniques to be used to ensure that all garments are sewn to meet the NWSD quality standards.  

Next up

So this is where we are at for now, next up we have final fittings where each look is assessed for styling, thereafter is the dreaded final submissions and finally rehearsal time on Friday 7 November!

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