Knitwear in true Elizabeath Galloway Fashion Academy style

Judging by what we have seen this past winter season, we can confidently say that knitwear has made a massive comeback. After observing some great designs, we are excited to note that two of Elizabeth Galloway Fashion Academy’s students, Michelle Lotz and Kim Gush, have been contributing towards this lush trend.


Michelle Lotz collection

For this collection, Michelle wanted to showcase her talent by expressing her individuality. She incorporated a different technique in her Winter collection by opting for knit, thereby pushing the boundaries of a commercial design approach.

Michelle's aims to reach the working woman, who knows what they want from their personal style.

Images of Michelle's knitted range:







Kim Gush collection

Kim knitted her range by using a large cable knit with hand spun wool, using size 12 needles. By joining the cables on the incorrect side she was able to create a tube like effect. Each Snood consists of 15 skeins of hand spun wool.


Images of Kim Gush's range:








We absolutely love these knits girls, well done!

Amy Pyne-James wedding dress takes second place at the South Africa Fashion Week Vodacom 4U Student Competition

We were finally able to get hold of some more images with Amy Pyne- James beautiful wedding dress that took second place at the South Africa Fashion week Vodacom 4U student Competition.

Absolutely beautiful and again well done Amy!

Elizabeth Galloway students and lecturers do us proud in the South Africa Fashion Week Vodacom 4U Student Competition and Elle New Talent competition

Elizabeth Galloway students and lecturers do us proud in the South Africa Fashion Week Vodacom 4U Student Competition and Elle New Talent competition

This year Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion was proud to have two students take part in the South Africa Fashion Week, held from 22-25 September 2011.

Two of our students, Amy Pyne-James and Thilana Blignaut, went through to be two of the 14 finalist selected from 224 entrants and were given the opportunity to showcase their pieces to the delight of local fashionistas. According to the rules of the competition, each girl was expected to create one piece made from denim clothing pieces.

Thilana designed a dress around the central themes of architecture and the ocean; she wanted to include the feel that reminded of an old beach house. She decided to go with a 50's style bustier dress to carry her vintage feel through using the structured elements of architecture and the natural colour scheme of the ocean.

Amy's piece, which she dubbed Denim Deconstruction, featured a beautifully elegant wedding dress made entirely from denim.

In Amy's creation she wanted to challenge the original perception of denim. Following the timeline of denim, starting at workmen clothing to casual wear and now to the intimacy of something as special as a wedding dress, Amy also incorporated the traditions of a wedding theme.

Amy took second place in the SAFW Vodacom4U competition and won a Macbook Air, a cash prize and a 21"iMac for the school. Congratulations Amy!

Not to be outdone by his students, our very own lecturer Charl Jansen van Rensburg showed his range at the opening of South Africa Fashion Week in the Elle New Talent /Mr Price competition, where he took part as one of this year's finalists.

His range is described as:

"Sophistication and structural integrity married with vivid textured colors, softened by silk chiffons and suiting. Expression through silhouette and shape combined with prints challenging ones understanding of composition. A story formulated by the patterns of each garment, symbolizing the pattern of life."

We are so proud to have such talented students and lecturers at our school. Well done to all of you!

Graduate Fashion Event Photo's

Show 3 at 19h30

Show 2 at 17h00

Show 1 at 15h00

Elizabeth Galloway Graduate Fashion Event 2011

Twitter Competition!

The Winners of the Foschini Fastrack

The Winners of the Foschini Fastrack

13 JULY 2011

The clothes had hit the runway, the models had done their final walk and the time had come to announce the winners. Janet Norman, the design executive of Foschini walked onto the stage ready to present some fresh design candidates with a little more wind for their ‘fashion sails’.

Three graduate designers were each awarded design internships at this major retailer to the value of R100 000.00. The three lucky designers awarded were Mia Kriek, Chelsea Wilson and Thoki Tafeni.

When asked about how they felt just after winning this awesome prize, they described a range of emotions including happiness, excitement and shock. With the help of this platform Thoki hopes to “build her fashion career”.

With opportunities like jobs and invaluable experiences in the fashion industry, these three creative minds can give themselves a pat on the back for work well done. We look forward to seeing them in the future on the catwalk with many more memorable fashion creations.

Interview by:Nicole Samuels

Written by:Lloyd Loots

Source: http://www.afisa.co.za/?p=697

Elizabeth Galloway Graduate Fashion Event 2011

Tickets available now at http://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=3488664

FASTRACK™ ACTIVATION AT FASHION COLLEGES – ELIZABETH GALLOWAY

On 10 June Foschini AFI Fastrack™ in collaboration with Cape Town Fashion Council presented to over 100 design students at Elizabeth Galloway. The presentation commenced at 12pm and ended at 2pm. The objective was to publicly announce and congratulate the 6 Graduate designers from Elizabeth Galloway who made it to the final round of showcasing their designs atFoschini AFI Fastrack™. The primary objective was to present Fastrack to the rest of the students. AFI gave a presentation on the purpose of this initiative, their role and the planned activations they have instore for the students who will be attending i.e. other activities on the day either than the fashion shows (various seminars which will be facilitated by key industry stakeholders, exhibitions by 5 fashion design institutions, entertainment etc).Foschini’s presentation gave the students a better understanding of various divisions that make up the organisation as well as their role in the initiative.

CTFC gave an industry overview and our role in Foschini AFI Fastrack™.

Overall we were inspired by the talent at Elizabeth Galloway and the students’ passion for fashion and the industry. We spotted several inspiring fashion trend setters amongst the students. This was refreshing as these are SA’s future fashion designers. We look forward to seeing what designs they come up with once they graduate from college.

We would like to thank Elizabeth Galloway for hosting us and getting the students together for the presentations. Not forgetting the delicious cup cakes that were decorated in edible miniature bows, buttons, mannequins, scissors, measuring tape.

Source: http://ctfc.co.za/?p=3358