Cape Town – Designers for 2017 Fashion and All That Jazz Gala Dinner: Here are the proudly local designers who participated in this year’s event.
Nvme Bikini: Each year the dinner showcases an emerging designer and this year, twins Roxanne and Simone van Rooyen are the designers behind this crocheted swimwear range.
Democracy of Denim (DOD) is the brainchild of young designer Tamsyn Johannisen, whose range explores multiple-stylish uses for denim, which started out as a utilitarian fabric but is now iconic with everyone wearing it, hence the name. DOD also includes a small children’s range.
There is the Wear SA range designed in-house by a team of talented young designers under Johannisen’s watchful eye.
Blue Collar White Collar is designed by Paul van der Spuy.
Streetwear brand, Magents, from design duo Didier and Tey, will be showcasing their work.
All the fabrics in this collection come from African soil. At this year’s show, there is an androgynous feel in the men’s knitwear as more designers are embracing gender fluidity in their collections, mimicking the shift in fashion which calls for an acceptance of style without boundaries.
At the time of the gala dinner, Magents had opened its fourth store, in Ballito, Kwazulu-Natal, which is proof there is a demand for fashion here.
Last but not least, a new brand that launched under the Wear SA store is 1994, also a young, casual clothing brand with street cred from the Wear SA stable.