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The Collective Graduate Fashion Show

The designs of final year Fashion Design student, Zipho Rapiya, won top honours in the Mohair category at Friday evening's The Collective Graduate Fashion Show.
Other winners on the night were Vimbai Chingosho for the Best Range with runner-up Kay-Leigh Pike and third place Brodi Deere. The Best Technical Student was Brodi Deere. Second and third place in the Mohair category went to Gabi Darné and Jessica Moore respectively.
In the Model Magnet part of the show - where models competed for the top spots - Sinazo Ngxishe and Simthandile Tenge took first place with Nontando Saki and Mazan dos Santos in second and Jodie Mouton and Magcina Tyulu in third.
Fashion editors from around the country attended the event, as well as some international students who won a mohair competition in Japan recently.
For more information on fashion design and photography at NMMU - visit our website.
You can also check out Mohair SA's Facebook page.

stay KILLaFLY!!!

....things to come.: The Collective fashion show

....things to come.: The Collective fashion show: The third year class had a busy week last week. We had the anual graduates fashion show, hosted by our university NMMU. The fashion show was...

The Collective fashion show

The third year class had a busy week last week. We had the anual graduates fashion show, hosted by our university NMMU. The fashion show was very successful.
These are some of the Mohair designs that were show cased at the show on Friday.

Model, Anele Ngcizela

Designer: Mpumzi Mpati

Photographer: Leze Hurter

Model, Marc Cooper 

Designer: Mpumzi Mpati

Photographer: Leze Hurter

Model, Layne Wilkens

Designer: Zipho Rapiya

Photographer: Kathleen Van der Merwe

Model,Zipho Rapiya

 Designer: Zipho Rapiya

Photographer: Kathleen Van der Merwe

Models, Magcina Tyulu Mike (left), Lethu Poltine

Designer: Aviwe Makwedini

Photographer: Charlene Channon

Models, Zipho Rapiya

Designer: Aviwe Makwedini

Photographer: Charlene Channon

Aviwe Makwedini's range is my favourite... Her designs are what i call KILLaFLY.

Be like her...

And Stay KILLaFLY!!!

My Week...

One of the greatest things I ever told myself is "Comfort before Fashion". I love being free..... Leggings are one of my fav things during a busy week.

These are my LEGgings.

Never forget colour, wherever you go!!!

 Stay KILLaFLY!!!

What is KILLafly???

The name KILLaFLY was born in 2010. I had a project to design a hoodie that described me as an individual. Who I am, What makes me tick, Where I come from........... With all that, I decided to ask people what they think of me and incorporate it with what I thought I was or am.

• most people thought I had style, I am 'fly', know how to dress (I hope they STILL DO).
• I started listing things that I love, believe in and dislike.
• I came up with aliens, flies (which I hate), models (weight) 

THIS IS THE END PRODUCT (the hoodie and the print)

There you have it..... Stay KILLaFLY!!!

Show some leg

One of my favourite things to wear is shorts... Winter, Summer It doesn't matter. I love showing my legs, even though I wish they were longer, lol.

This was one of the things we did for a show. Go to a club, sell ourselves (so to speak) in order to obtain votes.

this is one of the most comfortable looks i have.(when there is no wind in Port Elizabeth that is).

here are some more legs

Enjoy KILLaFLY !!!

There you have it: IT'S EITHER YOU GO SHORT OR see people wear it.

things to come

Things to come... this was to show people how i am... mostly how i dress 'kill.a.fly'. That is what i was, am and will be about. i am my own stylist. on my everyday i trust people take a piece of me with them.

ENJOY... KILLaFLY

Perfect fit

We spent most of our lives searching for the right fit, the perfect comfort.

Most of the time we are unaware of it. It may be that size jean you always wanted to fit in or maybe that person you want to love but in my reality the perfect fit comes from me. IT IS WITHIN. If it fits in my heart, it fits in my world.......

NUFF SAID!!!

KILLaFLY...

What beauty meant

I asked people what they thought beauty means to them. These are the answers i got:

• A quality pleasing to the eye or ear
• Something remarkable
• how one carries oneself
• freebies- get free stuff
• Blondie
• is the fragile balance of perfection within imperfection
• being effortlessly good inside out
•  something undiscovered

With all that said, I must agree that its very true. Beauty is Freebies, also something undiscovered. i always thought that beauty was acceptance. so most of my life I spent trying to be accepted and when  was I got tired of it. That's what we all try and do, lose ourselves to obtain beauty. And that it is OBTAINABLE.
We all can have beauty, we just need the right ingridients.

Signed
ZiphoRapiya, Beauty

Alliance Francaise Fashion Show.

Natalie Creed's BabyMo Creed Mohair designs... COMFORT.

Random Photoshoots

Emma Wissink's design for the Durban July Young Designer competition 2011

Tina Ngxokolo's design for the Durban July Young Designer competition 2010

This design was the winner of the Eastern Cape Designs, which made it through to the Durban July.

The collective fashion show

These are hard times, busy times... love it though.

This is when I realised that beauty is obtainable.