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From Graduate to SA Fashion Week

Amanda Trom Design Academy of Fashion

From Graduate to SA Fashion Week: Amanda Trom’s Journey with VNTU Amanda Trom’s transformative journey in the world of fashion design has been nothing short of inspiring. Graduating with the class of 2022 in March 2023, she swiftly made a significant leap from being a student to debuting her first non-student collection at the prestigious […]

Amanda Trom wins at the Milano Fashion Film Festival

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Design Academy of Fashion Graduate Amanda Trom Wins Best New Fashion Film at the Fashion Film Festival Milano Cape Town, South Africa – [28 June 2023] – The Design Academy of Fashion (DAF) is thrilled to announce that Amanda Trom, a talented graduate of the Class of 2022, has been awarded the prestigious Best New Fashion Film accolade at the […]

Graduate Exhibition 2020

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DAF GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2020 In a year of global change, the DAF class of 2020 chose to innovate and re-imagine our graduate exhibition. With the limitations on people attending events, we cancelled the annual fashion show.   A meeting took place with the DAF staff and 3rd years to discuss our options. Should we push […]

Frankfurt Style Awards 2019

The FRANKfurtstyleaward is one of the world’s most established global fashion contests for students. It stands for a sustainable talent and career platform that connects fashion newcomers, professionals, colleges, universities, fashion creators and the fashion & style communities. The contest’s unique concept supports innovative ideas, creativity and inventive achievement and offers its participants an international springboard into […]

Paidamoyo Kondile Interview

DAF 2016 Alumni, Paidamoyo Kondile, graduated not only with her diploma in Fashion Design from DAF, but with the coveted SAFW Student Competition prize, sweeping up 1st place with her intricately made African print dress. We catch up with her, finding out about her inspiration and design process. 1. How did you interpret the competition […]

SA Mens Fashion Week 2017

Lexus South African Menswear Week once again hosted some of Africa’s top established and emerging designers, showcasing their new Autumn/Winter 2017 ranges. DAF alumni, Nicholas Coutts, presented his 70’s-inspired range with his signature weaving technique and fresh colours popping on the runway designed for the “contemporary man who likes classic style with a twist”, as […]

DAF Student wins SAFW Competition

This past weekend one of our final year students, Paidomoyo Kondile won the South African Fashion Week 2016 Student competition! Their brief was to Design a high fashion DRESS using African print fabric! Congrats Paidamoyo Kondile! We are super proud you! #winner #studentcompetition #superproud #competition #dafstudent#fashion #africanprint #print