What has everyone been up to...?

So here we are, 4 weeks into the second term. We here at DAF cant belive its May already!

Daniel Bradley/Inspiration: Grunge Sub-culture

With the Annual Fashion Show fast approaching; Cape Town Fashion Week and the Graduate Shows; as well as various design competitions around the corner - everyone is busy busy busy!

Anna lane/Inspiration: French Culture/Victorian Era

The 1st years have been working on their first storyboard presentations.

Thandi Pritchard/Inspiration: 1960's Mod Sub-culture

They had to use a foreign or native culture as inspiration for 3 skirt designs.

Second year classroom

The 2nd years have been busy designing their swimwear and sportswear ranges.

Erica Sauzier/1950's/yachting/Varga girls

The theme for the swimwear was 'Traveller'.

Minky Mokapela/Rio De Genaro carnival

The students came up with some truly interesting designs ranging from special occasion to inter-changeable/reversible swim suits.

Grethe Bredenkamp/Thailand

Hannah Lavery/Working Traveller/Reversable Swimwear

The inspiration for their sportswear ranges was the FIFA World Cup as well as incorporating current trends in sportswear.

Hannah Lavery/80's Trend/Inspiration: FIFA stadiums/Active Lifestyle

 They could choose any type of sport and had to pay special attention to fabric choice and construction.

Erica Sauzier/Trend: Knitwear/Inspiration: FIFA trophy cup/Contemporary Ballet

Students used everything from the FIFA stadiums and trophy to the soccer ball as inspiration and designed for every kind of sport -be it tennis; horse riding; cycling and even contemporary ballet.

Grethe Bredenkamp/Trend: streetwear as active wear/Inspiration: Brittish Flag/Soccer team

The ideas were original and all 2nd year students had strong concepts, which flowed effortlessly into the final garments.

Finally the 3rd years have been working on their couture dresses for the end of year fashion show

Charlotte Clark

The theme for this years couture is 'Shallow Seas & Ocean Deep'.

Heike Lauterbach

Students were inspired by the creatures of the ocean; coral; waves and even salt crystals.

Sarah Dreyer

Even though this is one of the most challenging market segments to design for, because of the technicality involved, the girls created some beautiful garments which are sure to stand out at the end of year fashion show.

Kim Sassen

This term its shirts for the 1st years; menswear for the second years and final ranges for the 3rd years...

Watch this space!

Term Two 04/05/2009

The year seems to be flying and we are already 2 weeks into the 2nd term!
Last term the 1st years completed their first design project.

Their task was to design a skirt for Spring/Summer '09;looking at current trends in colour, fabric and shape.
Erica Sauzier; moodboard and storyboard.

They first had to create a moodboard based on these trends and themes and from this they created 3 skirt designs in simple storyboard format.




The project was challenging, but the standard was very high and the 1st years were clearly up to the challenge!

Petrie Morton; moodboard and storyboard






The 2nd years ended last term with the full-scale production of an outfit designed for a film of their choice, as part of Costume Studies.


They had to design for a specific scene and character in the film and the garment had to look as if it would fit seamlessly into the aesthetic of the film.

Kim Sassen ;The Notebook; beach scene; Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams)


The students really went all out and produced some beautiful, original outfits.




Sarah Dreyer; My Fair Lady; ball scene; Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn)




Kirsten Chancellor Maddison; Grease; End dance scene; Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John)


















Hieke Lauterbach;Memoirs of a Geisha; Garden scene; Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang)


Last term also saw the completion of the 3rd years couture garments. They are currently working on their tailoring garments...photo's to follow soon!


Stephanie Anastasopolous -Inspired by Scotland















Cindy Armstrong - Inspired by India














Abbi-may Richards - Inspired by the Victorian Era

















M.J Kemp - Inspired by Italy/'Le Dolce Vita'















Entering into term 2, the 2nd year students have been busy conceptualizing their men's wear/soft tailoring ranges for the end of year fashion show.

As most of the students were new to designing for men, they were required to first create 5 moodboards. These included a customer profile (looking at lifestyle); key items, mood and colour; graphic and accessories.



Sarah Dreyer - Geek Ch!c





Out of the 3 outfits designed, one will be chosen to be made up for the fashion show

Kim Sassen - Military V.s. Biker







Zoe Barnardo - Street Warrior













Ashley-mae Marshall - The New Casual










DAF has created the 'Outreach Programme', which aims at getting the students involved in helping those less fortunate than themselves. This year we are proud to be associated with the Gladys School of Dance.

The second years were given the task of designing Latin dance dresses for the couples. 5 designs were chosen and the students will be making up the girls' Latin dance dresses for an up coming competition.