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Vukani Fashion Awards
Fashion in Johannesburg

www.vukanifashionawards.co.za
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Old Mutual, the City Of Tshwane and Vukani Fashions have entered into a partnership to host the annual Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, Menlyn Shopping Park Shopping Centre, Exhibition and Workshops.

Stimulate the creation of innovative garments that reflect the cultures of South Africa. Expose promising and accomplished designers to fashion buyers and consumers, locally and internationally. Promote the work of promising and accomplished designers at exhibitions locally and internationally. Provide education, training and career opportunities for promising designers in South Africa. Promote indigenous and afro-centric look through role models through an African (continent) Pride Award. Information dissemination on market opportunities, access to finance and business development support services through seminars and workshops. In Partnership with key stakeholders support and develop youth fashion designers. Fashion Awards as a world class support mechanism for youth fashion designers. Business growth for existing youth designers contributing to employment creation. Increased awareness and support for local designs contributing positively to the local clothing and textile industry. Sonwabile is an innovator, creative thinker and visionary. He is a sought-after trend analyst, and while his feet remain firmly planted on African soil, he uses a global perspective to source new ideas, gauge the zeitgeist and identify cutting edge trends. Local and international corporations have turned to him as a consultant, because of his ability to think outside the box. For many years he has worked in various fields in the fashion industries, and currently also operates as a freelance supervisor monitor specializing in global industry trends and business of fashion commentary. He has sat on the judging panel of African Diaspora and South Africa’s premier fashion awards, and has faced the nation as a TV presenter. He is committed to growing the local fashion industry and has through a variety of organizations mentored the young guns of the African Diaspora fashion designers. For the past couple of decades, Sonwabile Ndamase has worked determinedly, but largely outside of the commercial South African fashion industry, creating a platform for indigenous African fashion, under his Vukani brand and through the establishment of SAFDA (the South African Fashion Designers Agency) as chief judge of the Annual Reds African Fashion Designers Awards (RAFDA), which take place in Ghana, Tanzania, Botswana, Lusaka, Kenya, Mozambique. The awards involve a national industry search for latest up & coming talented designers looking to turn professional. It provides an exciting boost and opportunity for emerging young designers who want to take their careers up a notch. Winners have participated in Mozambique Fashion Weeks, Swaziland Fashion Week, Cape Town, Jo’burg and Durban fashion weeks to rave reviews. In 1997 SAFDA Awards were endorsed by Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki as an agent for emerging designers. In 1994, Ndamase established the annual Vukani Fashion Awards to help develop young and especially black talent, alongside the existing, generally white-dominated events.
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