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A outstanding event to add to any South Africa holidays itinerary is the Joburg Fashion Week. It is kept in the city of Johannesburg for the duration of the month of February, gathering together some of South Africa’s most pioneering, inspiring and originative designers. It is a will have to for any true fashionista worth their salt, and this year looks set to be an event full of surprises and innovation.

New Directions

Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, the Chairperson for African Fashion International (AFI), and a great deal of of the huge names in the African fashion world attended a star-studded event that declared the dates and venues for the 2011 Joburg Fashion Week. If you are planning to visit this event on your South Africa holidays then hold on to your hats for big changes this year. Dr. Moloi-Motsepe likewise revealed her desire to make the city of Johannesburg the fashion capital of Africa, and the new direction that Fashion Week would be taking. She spoke of a “stronger company resourcefulness that will serve as a catalyst for the development and growth of the fashion industry, ensuring both local and international participation.”

Taking the Fashion to the City

One way organisers hope to make the Fashion Week more interesting is to implicate the entire city in the fashion extravaganza; so they took the events to the streets and applied the beauteous buildings and monuments that populate the city. For example, if you occur to be perusing the National Gallery sometime in February while on your South Africa holidays, you may be fortunate sufficient to see Stiaan Louw show off his provocative menswear collection. Or perhaps the Nelson Mandela Bridge is on your list of ‘things to do while on South Africa holidays’. If that is true then you may be lucky to catch a glimpse David Tlale, whose show will be the closing spotlight of this stimulating week of fashion.

The Key Players

The event is populated with a range of journalists and stake holders as well as designers, and the AFI introduced a heap of of the new faces that will be the driving strength behind the resourcefulness of this year’s Fashion Week. Among the illustrious names are Paul Leisegang, the new Managing Director, and Jan Malan of Umzinggeli.

Joburg Fashion Week, starting on February 15th, will run for four days and looks set to be an stimulating series of fashion events – something you don’t want to miss out on if on your South Africa holidays fall in that month.

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