After more than a month of scouting and training young models and exposing them to the fashion industry on 8 September, the South African Fashion Week announced the two winners who were awarded a one-year contract with Boss Modelling Agency.
The three-day pop-up show saw designers meet up in Waterfall to showcase their latest designs.
Lucilla Booysen, who is the chief executive officer of the South-African Fashion Week, explained the importance of them giving designers and models a platform.
She added, “It is very important for us to give designers an opportunity to connect with their consumers, to build their database, to sell their garments, to make contact and be able to do research, that is why we do the SAFW pop-up shops.
“The place is beautiful and this gives the designers a chance to actually be in a luxury environment.”
Booysen also elaborated on the SAFW’s initiative where they find new faces – called the Mall of Africa Face of Fashion.
“We started two months ago, scouting all over, we scouted Midrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and we brought the finalists right here to Waterfall. We then chose 20 girls from about 140 girls who went through training and that ended in two becoming the Face of Fashion.”
Darah White explained their partnership with SAFW saying that they worked together for so many years. “Our agency is always looking for new models.
Lucila already works with us and our models and she can see what we can do to a brand-new face and how we train them.
“SAFW asked us if we wanted to come on board, because we like to nurture new talent and have a platform where we can find people in a safe way, especially, in this climate were women are in danger.
“Our industry has been given a bad representation and in this way we can broadcast it out to the world, how we support women and nurture new talent in a safe environment where any questions they have about our industry can be answered together.”
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