Gavin Rajah - South Africa Fashion Week 08

The Cape Town fashion Week just wrapped up in South Africa this weekend and what a treasure chest of amazing talent.

If you pride yourself on keeping up with fashion offerings, then do not take your eyes off South Africa.

All the talent of the masters, the glamour without the ego. Coud you ask for more? Not really.

Lalesso kicked off fashion week with fresh sassy offerings made with wearable African fabrics. Gavin Rajah, who has dressed Beyonce, Tyra Banks and Nelson Mandela and Hip Hop were full on glamour.

Rajah’s (who founded Cape Town’s fashion week) 2009 couture collection displayed in Cape Town combined the rhythmic kick of the tango, samba and bossanova with a Latin America inspired range in opulent sicilliene silks, tulle and chantilly lace and meticulous embroidery.

May we suggest a change of the name Hip Hop? It does not do the beautiful line any kind of justice.

“We have got the vision in this country. Internationally people have been using Africa as an inspiration for years. It is time for African designers to benefit,” says Evan Schiff, spokesman of Africa Fashion International, which runs the event.

Getting designs to the world was made easier in a major coup for South African fashion recently, as designers from the continent’s economic powerhouse were last year granted a permanent slot at Paris Fashion Week.

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