Following a two-year break, Swakopmund Style Week will resume in December.
The extremely anticipated style pageant will return to its mom city of Swakopmund after a two-year absence, in keeping with the organisers.
The Multipurpose Centre at Swakopmund will as soon as once more host style week with the theme ‘Style that Empowers’ within the first week of December.
Christ Lao Shameulu, a visionary entrepreneur, clothier, and podcaster, is the founding father of the occasion.
She has nearly a decade of expertise within the style trade and has participated in occasions like Windhoek Style Week, the Miss Youth in Tourism Style Present in South Africa, the Black Gold Revolution Style Present in Lusaka, Zambia, and Cape City Style Week.
Shameulu says the aim of style week is to develop a discussion board that honours originality, innovation and feminine empowerment.
In accordance with a press release launched final week, the occasion is able to revive the style scene with “renewed vitality and dedication after a brief pause in its operations resulting from monetary implications and the sudden challenges led to by the Covid-19 pandemic”.
Shameulu says this yr’s theme emphasises the importance of style as a device for empowering individuals, significantly girls, and selling financial progress.
“Swakopmund Style Week goals to create alternatives for native and worldwide designers, fashions, and trade professionals to showcase their expertise whereas additionally offering complete stitching coaching programmes to empower unemployed stay-at-home mothers and ladies,” she says.
She says the Multipurpose Centre is the perfect location due to its cutting-edge facilities and huge house.
This may supply the proper venue for style followers, enterprise insiders, and the neighbourhood to come back collectively and expertise the reworking energy of style, Shameulu says.
For years, Swakopmund Style Week has been famend for its dedication to high quality, creativity and group enchancment.
This eagerly awaited event’s comeback guarantees to function encouragement for commerce inside the style sector, in addition to for financial development and cross-cultural engagement.
Designers from Namibia and past are inspired to convey their very own views and artistic visions to the runway, whereas style lovers and trade professionals can count on a dynamic presentation of collections that embrace the topic of empowerment.
Shameulu says they’re thrilled to convey Swakopmund Style Week again to its roots.
“This occasion has at all times been about empowering individuals, celebrating expertise, and having a optimistic affect.”
In accordance with her, the aim of this yr’s theme is to uplift and encourage budding designers everywhere in the world, and she or he invitations everybody to participate within the occasion.
“Put the dates 1 and a couple of December in your calendars and are available to Swakopmund to see the resurrection of Swakopmund Style Week, and let’s honour style as a power for advancing our regional style sector collectively.”
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