The SFW team grants a platform for designers and grooms them to better their business skills to ensure growth for their brands. This season marked the first successful empowerment and development workshops/training sessions held to empower both designers and models. The aim for Soweto Fashion Week is to always develop, uplift and empower young, upcoming fashion creatives, designers, models, artists and brands respectively. Soweto Fashion Week has been operating for five years and successfully hosting two seasons each year, the Autumn/Winter season and Spring/Summer season.
Darling Hair continues to be the principal sponsor for Soweto Fashion Week. “The very essence of Darling is transformation which encourages and empowers women to rethink and reinvent the way they express themselves, and so our natural and synergistic alignment with Soweto Fashion Week continues to contribute towards fuelling women’s passion for hair and inspiration for life,” said Pearle Peane, senior brand manager.
The other existing brands/sponsors behind Soweto Fashion Week are Gauteng and Joburg Tourism, Soweto TV and ZeeWorld, and the first black owned spirit beverage brewed in Soweto, VTK Vodka.
Tickets are available at www.computicket.com, Shoprite Checkers nationwide, www.sowetofashionweek.com and Soweto Theatre box office for R80 per person per day. For more information, visit the SFW website and alternatively, connect with the brand via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram social media pages - @sowetofashionweek, #SFWSS17.
