Italian designer Diego M for Durban Fashion Fair

WELL-KNOWN Italian outerwear designer, Diego M, will showcase his exclusive outwear collection on the runway at this year’s much anticipated Durban Fashion Fair in August.

For his showing on the catwalk at the Durban Exhibition Centre on Saturday, 24 August, Diego Mazzi has created a capsule collection comprising garments that are handmade using some of the world’s most innovative and audacious leathers – a coco-printed nappa with mother-of-pearl glassy effect and spotted leather with a metallic mosaic, that reflects silver and champagne tones.

Sindi Shangase, Business Support Programme Manager for the eThekwini Municipality Business Support, Tourism and Markets Unit, said she was excited to announce that Diego M had accepted the invitation to travel to Durban as the specially invited international designer behind the signature showing at the 2013 Durban Fashion Fair.

“Diego M is not only known for his eclectic flair but also his superb tailoring, state-of-the-art fabrics and skillful crafting and finishing. This is exactly what we are trying to inculcate in Durban’s emerging and young designers for whom the Durban Fashion Fair was created. It is only with this level of sophsitication and expertise that local talents can make their marks in both the national and international fashion worlds. He represents the perfect role model for the Durban designers of the future,” she said.

Founded by husband-and-wife partners, Diego Mazzi and Manuela Bortolameolli, in 2003, Diego M. is an Italian fashion brand focused on outerwear. Diego Mazzi has lived and breathed fashion for 30 years. With the ability of a great trendsetter and a musician’s acute sensitivity, he pinpoints and explores new directions in fashion, adapting them to modern tastes.

The Durban Fashion Fair will be from 22 to 25 August 22 at the Durban Exhibition Centre and will showcase unique garments created by Durban’s design talents – from new designers who are just finding their feet on the catwalk to emerging talents who were treated to an internship in Milan, one of the fashion capitals of Europe, following Durban Fashion Fair 2012. Ten newcomers will be selected for a similar internship this year.

Shows will also include some of South Africa’s top designers and fashion brands.

The four day Durban Fashion Fair includes workshops, shows and a buyers’ lounge. It will culminate in a sale of garments seen on the ramps on Sunday, 25 August.

Tickets to the exciting fashion shows at the Durban Exhibition Centre are now on sale through Computicket at just R100 a show and R50 for students per show.

To find out more about the Durban Fashion Fair, log on to www.durbanfashionfair.com, visit official facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DurbanFashionFair or Twitter https://twitter.com/DbnFashionFair.