The Platinum Fashion Festival

The Platinum Fashion Festival

North West School of Design is proud to present a fashion festival in celebration of our 15 years in fashion education.  Fashion Festivals have always been glamorous events which boost visibility and promotion of the brands associated. They inspire the imagination with shimmering spectacle and outrageous designs. The Platinum Fashion Festival serves to drum up excitement about local talent and provide a platform for creative designers to showcase their talent and boost their confidence.

Click Here for the Platinum Fashion Festival Website

Theme - Fifteen Shades of Style

The Platinum Fashion Festival is incorporated with our 15th year celebration.
The event provides students with the platform to showcase their design and skills to the fashion industry, media, public and family. Click Here to read more about the "15 Shades Of Style" theme.

The Concept

The 2014 Platinum Fashion Festival - 15 Shades of Grey and will consist of:

The 1st year’s Fashion Installation

A Fashion Installation is a movement of art and music innovated by fashion. A fashion installation atmosphere provides the audience with a view of art that explains fashion in a better way. Many fashion collections are showcased via installations and it’s been a successful journey till this far hence installations are on trend…

Showcasing Fashion through Art.  The NWSD Platinum Fashion Festival’s 1st year Installation incorporates live music, theatrical headwear and fashion.


The Audi Student Collections

Forms the GALA Event of the Platinum Fashion Festival and is presented by NWSD 2nd year students.  The aim is to showcase student’s creative & technical abilities through these Couture collections


The Old Mutual Buyers Collections

Showcasing 3rd year student’s ready-to-wear collections to buyers, bloggers, boutique owners, boutique agents, media and fashion professionals. Click Here to register

The Program

Old Mutual 3rd Year’s Buyers Collection

16:00 - 16:45

Networking with buyers and media

16:45 - 17:30

1st Year’s Fashion Installation

17:30 - 18:50

Audi 2nd Year’s Collection

19:00 - 21:00

Media Interviews and Networking

21:00

Sponsors & Partners

The list of sponsors and partners grows each day from local and national brands taking hands with our events management team to ensure a great fashion extravaganza..

Click here for an update of our sponsors and partners.

The Team Behind The Platinum Fashion Festival

The NWSD Fashion Management students are responsible for the event planning.

Click Here to meet the team behind the Platinum Fashion Festival.

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The Team Behind the Platinum Fashion Festival

Everyone knows that a fashion show is an exciting happening at North West School of Design.  This year celebrating our 15^th year of fashion tuition, we are celebrating the Platinum Fashion Festival.

Herewith is the team behind the Platinum Fashion Festival.

“On behalf of myself and Marlene, I hereby wish to thank each one of these students for their dedication, commitment and continuous hard work ensuring that this year’s Fashion Show be such a huge success ...”

Stacey Grant – Fashion Show Director – 3^rd year Fashion Management and Communication is the Fashion Show Director.  She has an array of responsibilities but she must ensure that the whole event runs smoothly. 

She scheduled all meetings between staff and students and liaises with the principal on budget-related matters and the Fashion Show matters with the Program Manager of the Fashion show.

 Ezrah Ranjato (3^rd year Fashion Management and Communication) student and David Ndumba

(1^st year) student portfolio is that of Venue Coordinators.

They are to ensure that security prior and during the show is met.  They must also organise with the Fashion Show Director that seating plans coincide the budget and make sure that all areas frequented by guests are clean and safe.

Chandre Soru (3^rd year Fashion Management and Communication) student and Jenine Grobler (1^st year) student portfolio is that of Front of House.  They are the hostesses at the event, and had to design a network area and organise the red-carpet area whereby guests can have their photographs taken. 

 Marvin Masike (2^nd year) Fashion Management and Rebaone Malane (`1^st year) has the duty of Technical Coordinators.  They must ensure that all slideshows regarding student collections get allocated to the correct scenes.  Music selection for the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd year collections/ranges are also part of their duties.  The organising of the photographers and videographers also form part of their portfolio.

Marjorie Olifant (2^nd year) Fashion Management student heads up the Backstage Coordinator and Styling Coordinator.  What this briefly entails is that she must ensure all models are 100% before they proceed on the ramp. 

The hair and make-up of the models are also to be done in accordance to specifications.  The backstage area is also her department and she is to ensure that all backstage members of the fashion show get their backstage passes and return them after the fashion show.

Kimberley Madangure (2^nd year) and Bianca van Zijl(1^st year) Fashion Management and Communication students are the Catering Coordinators.  The food and beverages of the Platinum Fashion Festival is their baby.  Ensuring the quality of food and beverages served to the guests are aesthetically pleasing to the eye and the palette.  They must also liaise with Round Table 45 that alcohol to be served to guests.  They must also make sure that no alcohol to be served to guests younger than 18.

Charlie Sattertwhaite (2^nd year) and Bianca van Zijl (1^st year) has the responsibility of PR Coordinator and Tickets.  They are to ensure the whole marketing of the event runs smoothly.  They liaise very carefully with the media regarding pre-press releases and post press-releases.  They are also responsible to welcome and escort media when they attend the event. 

Tickets booked online for guests form part of their duties, as to issue them to guests when they arrive at the show.

Monique de Ponte  (2^nd year) and Lebogang Kepadisa (1^st year) has the duty of Model Coordinators.  They are responsible to host the model casting and to contact the models regarding their fitting schedules on fitting days as well as the Dress Rehearsal and Fashion Show. 

Carla Ackermann (2^nd year Fashion Management and Communication) student has the duties of Entertainment Coordinator which mainly entails her to organise the after-party for the students and Student Liaison, as this duty is to ensure that all the students participating in the Work through the Night is catered for (their stomaches) and also their general well-being.  She must motivate, monitor and guide students.  She must also get in contact with students if they have to order any sewing equipment and liaise it directly with the principal.

15 Shades of Style

Platinum Fashion  Festival

8th November 2014

15 Shades of style

The Platinum Fashion Festival is the brainchild of NWSD and an official North West school of Design event.

The Platinum Fashion Festival is incorporated with our 15th year celebration.

The event provides students with the platform to showcase their design and skills to the fashion industry, media, public and family.

The Platinum Fashion Festival will accommodate 3 shows, a VIP Lounge, Networking area, Red Carpet photo spot, Round Table Cash Bar and a Food Kiosk.

Theme - 15 Shades of Style 

Celebrating the love of Fashion

North West School of Design has been around for 15 YEARS.  

We took this symbol of achievement into consideration and searched for the latest event details and themes, then added that to the general atmosphere of the different prominent fashion shows around the world.

 And you thought the fifty SHADES OF Grey thing is over... well, not yet, the dark romantic, passionate and flaboyant theme allows us to move from the traditional show to a fashion festival, this suits the occasion

We choose style because fashion fades but  STYLE is eternal, style is a distinctive form of quality, a manner of expression that can be applied to fashion.

Program

Old Mutual 3rd Year Buyer's collection

16:00-16:45

Networking with Buyers and Media

16:45- 17:30

1st Year Heineken Fashion Installation

17:30-18:50

Audi 2nd Year Collection

19:00-21:00

Media Interviews and Networking

21:00

SAVE THE DATE - 8th November 2014

 

1st Year Heineken Fashion Installation

Old Mutual 3rd Year Buyers collection

Audi 2nd Year collection

First Year Guest Designer

Three talented first year BA Fashion Design students were selected today as First Year Guest Designers for the forthcoming Platinum Fashion Festival.  (Keikantseone Omolemo Segale, Lesedi Maphike and Accolade Mabaso.)  One of these lucky students will walk away with the title of "First Year Best Designer 2014." #watchthisspace #nwsd #PlatinumFashionFestival #happy <3

Window Dressing Course (Visual Merchandising)

According to Wikipedia Visual merchandising is the activity and profession of developing the floor plans and three-dimensional displays in order to maximize sales.

Visual Merchandising can:

-          - Improve Business’ productivity

-          - Boost sales per square foot

-          - Generate a faster turnover rate

-          - Sell more of most profitable merchandise

-          - Decrease markdown rates

-          - Increase the amount of average transaction

-          - Convert the shopper a “stopper” and a walk-in rather than a walk-by

s    The NWSD Window Dressing Course will be presented by Eloise Booysen who studied interior design from 2003 -2005 at Tina Scholtz Academy in Potchefstroom. Being totally inspired by fabrics and always having a passion for fashion, Eloise then studied a BA Fashion Design in Pretoria at The Design School Southern Africa from 2006 -2008. Always the innovator Eloise then with her design knowledge completed a few short courses in auto-cad with the vision of incorporating interior design with the work of an architect. This plan quickly changed into her own business Venture, "Ella interior & design", an interior design business that opened in July 2009. To broaden her horizons further, Eloise, completed numerous North West School of Design short courses like upholstery, visual merchandising & window dressing. Eloise is still very involved in the industry of fashion and interior design, but works full time in the motor industry helping to grow their family business.

Eloise believes that each window display tells it's own story, you stop, stare and think. 

You have to be extraordinary to be irreplaceable.

                                                                Lanvin

                                                          Louis Vuitton                                    

Window dressing Course:

Starts: 5 Aug - 28 Aug (Tue & Thu) 

17h30-19h00

To register mail charles@nwsd.co.za

or phone

018 462 5149

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