South Africa’s premier fashion design platform, South African Fashion Week (SAFW) and Fashion Revolution (FR), the UK-based not-for-profit organisation leading the charge to clean up the international fashion industry, have joined forces to amplify the global movement’s impact on the local industry.

Director of South African Fashion Week, Lucilla Booyzen, has been elected to the influential fashion industry communications and analysis hub, The Business of Fashion’s (BoF)’s annual BoF 500 Global Fashion Leader Index for 2022.

SA Fashion Week (SAFW) will stage the Autumn/Winter 23 Collections at Mall of Africa, its home of the past three years, in October. Twenty-seven designers will launch their new collections on the runway from Thursday 20th October to Saturday 22nd October and forty will exhibit at the Trade Show on the 23rd and 24th October in the Crystal Court.

Ecological sustainability, women’s empowerment, inter brand collaboration and proudly local production investment are some of the dynamic developments that mark SA Fashion Week’s 25th Spring/Summer Collections set to kick off on 28 April 2022.

South African Fashion Week has announced the six finalists of the 2022 New Talent Search. Competing in the country’s most prestigious fashion award for rising stars are:

Not only has it retained its Coolest Mall status in the 2021 Sunday Times Generation Next Awards for the fourth consecutive year, but Mall of Africa has also scooped a total of nine wins in categories across the board - one Gold, three Silver and six Bronze awards - at the annual South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) Footprint Marketing Awards announced on 15 November 2021.

As part of the project Fashion Bridges – I ponti della moda created by the Italian Embassy in Pretoria in cooperation with Polimoda Fashion School and the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, and with the support of South African Fashion Week (SAFW ), ITA Agency, Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana

All the allure of live is set to return to local fashion as relaxed lock-down levels allow Mall of Africa to stage South African Fashion Week Autumn/Winter Collections on the runway to a select VIP audience from 28 – 30 October 2021.

The Mall of Africa in collaboration with SA Fashion Week is excited to announce the finalists in the Mall of Africa’s Face of Fashion Competition. This is a unique opportunity to launch the career of our next fashion supermodels as this never-before-seen, faces of fashion, will be spotlighted on the runway for South African Fashion Week’s Collections taking place from the 28th to the 30 October, and the SAFW, Pop-up Shop.

The Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, South Africa, in partnership with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Polimoda, Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana, Lineapelle, SAFW (South African Fashion Week) and the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), with the support of Nelson Mandela Forum Firenze is proud to announce the launching of: ‘Fashion Bridges – I Ponti della Moda’.

SA Fashion Week as announced that the preview of the Spring/Summer 2021 and trans-seasonal designer collections, which have been shot at the Mall of Africa will be broadcast digitally between 29 April – 01 May 2021. Considering the government restrictions, the globally selected audience will include media, buyers, SA Fashion Week Partners and designer VIP clients.

South African Fashion Week is proud to announce the 2021 SAFW New Talent Search finalists. Established in 1998, this competition serves as a springboard for the designers who enter, with those selected as finalists securing several opportunities for long-term growth.

Local design studios Lukhanyo Mdingi, Judith Atelier and MmusoMaxwell have joined together to take part in the Diamond Fibre Collections, a never-before-seen collection of designer fashion that celebrate the versatility and luxury of mohair.