Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Autumn Winter Trends from SAMW

South African Menswear Week (SAMW) was held just over a week ago in a rustic old factory building in Waterfront. This was a great venue that created an awesome ambience for this fashion forward bi-annual event. This season, Autumn/Winter (AW) 2020 showcased 20 of SA's best designers, some new comers and a few of the all time favorite's.

This season proved to be one for the books, a lot of the designers showcased their Ready-to-wear (RTW) street style and urban wear pieces. Although we love the creativity of the designers, some always wowing us with their Avant-garde designs, this season had more RTW ranges that were showcased. I would say that this season had a bit of everything for everyone.

What was evident, was the individuality of each designer. Having that difference not just in the designs but also in the colors, fabric textures, fabric patterns and the creativity in the use of different fabrics.

Some of my favorite designers were, G-thingbrand, changing up their colours and patterns from black and white check to a more vibrant and bold orange, black in a very distinct pattern.
Throwaway Twenty, brought sexy back in their 70's inspired theme. Bringing on some leather, snakeskin print shirts and pants.
Sergeant Peppers (SPCC) showed the crowd the latest in their streetwear range, ranging from denim, leather and quality printed t-shirts.
Lucky Luke, was definitely one of my favorite, with their range of formal, street lux and urbanwear. They changed the fabric textures for men from plain and normal to shimmer and shine. Their shimmer tailored jackets are definitely in my basket for this season.

Amongst all the fashion lovers, we had quite a few celebs and celebrity designers that were invited. In the front row were newly wed Mishka Loesch, celeb designer Craig Port and Mzukisi Mbane from Imprint and Jimmy Nevis, who by the way also walked the runway. Then also not forgetting Spice TV, doing their interviews with all of the designers celebrities and industry influencers.

So it was an eventful, inspiring and packed day of fashion and lifestyle. It was lights, camera, action and everyone brought their A-game right from the word Go!
A big thanks to Simon Deiner and the team for an awesome show.


 










All photos by SDR Photo.
For more photos follow the link below.
ramp.sdr.co.za/2002SAMW/