SA Fashion Week Competitions - New Talent search

The New Talent Search is South Africa’s most prestigious fashion award. Introduced by SA Fashion Week in 1998, previous winners include established designers such as Jacques van der Watt of Black Coffee, David Tlale, and more recently, Mmusomaxwell, Artho Eksteen and Thando Ntuli of MUNKUS.

Handpicked from the country’s most exciting young signatures by a panel of industry experts, becoming a finalist or a winner in the New Talent Search is a pivotal launch pad with prizes aimed at giving maximum support in the critical early years.

This competition is open to South African resident womenswear designers who have been in business for less than 10 years and either have their own store or are supplying at least one retail outlet.

In line with the international trend where top designers develop their own signature concepts, the creative brief is Show Us Your Print. Using sustainable fashion practice, participants were required to reference current silhouette trends as well as develop and apply a signature print across at least 50% of their design submission.