Source: news24.com

FASHION expected a business boost up when financial services assembly Sanlam declared a sponsorship intended at mounting the South African fashion and textile industry. Sanlam is now been the top of the bill sponsor for one of the country’s exclusively South African fashion. The initiative is the Sanlam South African Fashion Week.

Sanlam will moreover revolve out to be a co-sponsor, jointly with Proudly South African and the Western Cape Provincial Government, of the Spring Queen Fashion Pageant, controlled by the country’s leading fashion manufacturing union, the SA Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU). This is part of a wider enterprise with the trade union, as regarded by a spokesperson.

All the way through their enterprise with South African Fashion Week Sanlam is concerned in the Department of Arts and Culture national craft and intend mixture workshops placed in March and April.

Sanlam South African Fashion Week takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre from 27 – 30 July 2006. It showcases the full range of varieties of products with the up-and-coming young designers as well as hosting a two-day fashion. Sanlam South African Fashion Week creates a center of attention for buyers and agents from around the world and permits local designers, labels and brands to showcase themselves on international markets. The Sanlam South African Fashion Week Regional Collections will be held in Cape Town on 2 and 3 August.