Africa Fair Launches their Fall/Winter 2005/06 Collection at Premiere Classe, Paris
Cape Town, December 2004 - Africa Fair is excited to present our Fall/Winter 2004/05 collection,
which showcases some new designers as well as building on our more popular lines. The overriding theme
is about rich colours and textures used together to create stylish items with a quirky, unique yet
ethnically inspired aesthetic. Our designers draw inspiration from the traditional crafts of South
Africa and each item is uniquely handcrafted.
The very popular Get Wired line will now be available in a wintry copper wire with complementary
winter shades of dusky pink, frosted browns, bronze, silvered gold, ruby reds and petrol blue.
Our designers have also been inspired by locally farmed mohair, which has been used in scarves,
bags and jewellery. Hand dyed mohair in snow, dusky pink, burnt orange, fatigue greens and touches
of lively rain turquoise have been hand knitted by Snug into scarves and woven with wire by Get
Wired to form bags and cuff bracelets. Wool in snow, dusky pink and bark has been felted by Nono
Felt to create scarves and handbags for day and night use.
Philippa Green has a highly innovative line of jewellery made of Perspex, nylon, silver and rubber.
The collection presents a wide range of her signature Perspex cuffs including those with floral motifs
in nylon stitching or silver studs. These dramatic pieces will add much interest to the winter wardrobe.
Beverley Price's work captures everyday brands and images in enamelled miniatures and combines
these together to make funky jewelry to add a lively touch to an outfit. Her work is suited to museum
stores who can have her create wearable jewelry using the images from their collections.
The popular Mielie free-spirited hooked rug handbags has been extended with new designs and
color combinations to capture the underworld spirit of winter 2005. Smaller accessory items such
as make-up bags have been added to the line.
The Africa Fair Collection is available in stores in Paris and New York, as well as other locations across
the Europe and the USA. View Africa Fair's a full list of stockists.
About Africa Fair Passionate about fashion, and inspired by the colorful
creativity of Africa’s designers, Jennifer Fair set up Africa Fair in 2002. Her strong belief that
local African designers could successfully sell their products in international markets, combined with a
desire to move from a corporate venture capital job, motivated her to create a business that focused on
matching the finest of African accessories with lovers of unique style. Africa Fair brings innovative
African design to the global fashion accessory community thereby helping to preserve local crafting skills
in Africa and providing much needed employment. Africa Fair’s first collection was launched in New York
in November 2002. The company is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa and New York City.
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