The project wants to favour the emergence of new talents, by establishing an academic cooperation between some of the most relevant and internationally recognized fashion schools in Itlay and South Africa. SAFW and Polimoda have created a bridge between the bright new-gradutated students of different South African fashion schools and Polimoda. The young designers have exposed a collective capsule collection in Milan during the Milan Fashion Week in September 2021, and in Johannesburgh during the South African Fashhion Week in the month of October 2021.
November 8, 2021
‘Fashion Bridges’. Albini Group participates in the promotion of a collaboration between the Italian and South African fashion industries
“Fashion Bridges” it’s an innovative project realized by the Italian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa – in collaboration with Polimoda Fashion School in Florence and Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, and with the support of “South African Fashion Week” (SAFW), ICE-Agenzia, Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana and Nelson Mandela Forum – with the goal of creating the bases for a sustainable, inclusive, strategic long lasting cooperation between the Italian and the South African fashion industry.
Albini Group decided to support and inspire young designers to make their professional dreams come true, giving them the fabrics for the creation of their capsule collection. The students could experience with their own hands the quality of Albini fabrics, deepening all the aspects of the origin of raw materials, innovation and style that are at the basis of a piece of clothing.
Albini Group has also taken part in the round table organized in South Africa, showing its innovative business aiming at examining the potential of future collaborations and the commercial opportunities that such a synergy between Italian and South African economic operators could generate, in view of this strong complementarity between the two supply chains. In fact, creativity and cooperation have always characterised the Italian fashion industry, while South African one, with its luxurious raw materials, amis at increasing the quality of their textile and fashion products.
