The Free State Fashion Week (FSFW), which has become Bloemfontein’s premier fashion and lifestyle event, is set to unleash young, talented, and upcoming fashion designers to showcase their creative designs.
They will do so alongside established national and internationally acclaimed designers.
Local young designers are expected to showcase their African heritage flair at the fashion extravaganza.
It returns to the event calendar as the rest of the globe recovers from the two-year Covid-19 pandemic disruptions.
This year’s event will be at two venues: Mimosa Mall from 27 September to 2 October, and the Naval Hill Planetarium on 28 and 29 September and 1 October.
“It will offer opportunities for fashion lovers and designers to promote culture, diversity and creativity,” said Candy Smith, chief executive officer of FSFW.
The award-winning businesswoman founded the fashion initiative in 2016.
“Everyone in the world has gone through so much, both in their personal and professional lives. It is time to rise from whatever we have lost throughout the pandemic and take our rightful place and still manage to ‘Be Human’. This will reflect in the various designer collections this year,” said Smith.
In line with the objective of taking fashion to greater heights, two prominent and award-winning South African fashion designers, Gert-Johan Coetzee and Palesa Mokubung, will headline the FSFW masterclass.
Smith explained that this was a special programme designed to equip local emerging designers with the necessary tools and skills to set up a sustainable fashion and manufacturing business.
