“Naturally opulent mohair leads to a revolution in luxury, style and fashionable elegance. Produced in South Africa and adored across the globe, this versatile fibre is chosen by many of today’s leading designer and craftsman to create the ultimate in international everyday wear, haute couture and home wear.” Mohair South Africa.
By Sicelo Fayo
If the claim above by Mohair South Africa needed proof, the International Mohair Summit 2013 held in Jansenville over five days last week provided just the perfect venue to demonstrate it, and few clothes designers, among them students from the Mandela Bay based Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), took the opportunity.
The conference delegates.
The venue was the Borchards Township’s rugby ground, quite remarkable for its dusty, rocky surface due to complete lack of grass, but which you’d barely notice at dusk under the elegantly decorated big marquee complete with its own wooden floor and a ramp so flat and straight that it could have been anywhere in New York or Paris.
Featured acknowledged designers included Laduma Ngxokolo, Kelly Esterhyse as well as Harm Grobbelaar, a fashion design lecturer at the NMMU. But perhaps, adding pleasantry to the vibey atmosphere was the fact that many of the ‘models’ straddling the catwalk, were Jansenville youth some of whom were complete novices in a fashion parade.
Yet, unless you lived all your days in the fashion show world, and on the night, had had enough restraint to ignore the tapless flow of wine, you could not readily tell by just looking!
These were some of their works that were on display:
(All photos: Courtesy of the Green Room)
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