Source: tonight.co.za

Color, stripes, black, white, reworked denims, enlightening dresses - these were the first tastes of what was to come at the Nokia Cape Town Fashion Week.

Young Designers Emporium (YDE) kicked off the show in style yesterday, showcasing designers like Craig Port, CX, Phenomena and X&O.

Running next to the fashion shows would be a sequence of workshops for student designers, to pass on business skills.

The Fashion Eye Planning for the Future Workshops would be detained every morning, under the theme "Where Creativity Meets Business Savvy".

The workshops are being run by Pursuit magazine that has been on the market for 14 years and was re-launched at the start of the year.

Editor Nikki Johnston said the magazine looked after fashion, clothing and textile businesses in South Africa.

“We wanted to give back to the industry. Students are our future fashion industry," she said.

Students were confident to have a "sharp-business intellect" and not to be afraid of branding themselves and marketing themselves as a business, said Johnston.

Fashion designers, fashion design students and business owners are presence the workshops. The students sleet from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Bellville and Cape Town campuses), Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town, Design Academy of Fashion, Elizabeth Galoway, and Intec.