Ugandan designers benefit from fashion seminars

 

(Photo:marieprom.co.uk prom dresses 2014)They threw cold, scotching swigs of expensive intoxicants at the back of their throats.

But telling from the dress code of most people there, all were fashion enthusiasts, more or less.

Their hand, facial and body gestures oozed fashion adroitness. They talked like they were designing a multi-million fabric.

Hands being thrown around and American accents being hurled around like it were blankets and wines, except, they weren’t posers. They were gurus.

But that didn’t mean that they were all in position to throw a dart at the dais of fashion speech that would later ensue for it was the Kampala fashion week seminar.

A collection of designers, established and budding from across the globe, and of course, the Ugandan breed of wannabe designers that had come to par take of Gloria Wavamunos knowledge and imported knowledge from experienced fashion gurus from across the globe.

After the cocktail, shortly into 7: 00pm, guests were ushered into a tent where the night’s discussions would take place. Gloria Wavamunno, the proprietor of the Kampala fashion week would later share her knowledge but first on the dais was Elmar Stroomer, the Team Manager at Design without Borders, a U.K based fashion company.

He talked about the elements of design and took the participants through a practical relay of how designers should prepare their craft before going onto the market. He talked about marketing and branding as a vital aspect when it comes to growing a particular project.

But it was Fiona Naigwe the Head Tailor of Kampala Fashion Week and a graduate from Makerere University School of Fine Art who made headlines at the event.

She started off rather nervously. Her initial darts at speech were punctured by stutters and long pauses till she gained feet. Confidently, then, Fionah started her session afresh.

Teaching the designers around about the variety of fabrics to work with and rebuking those that had limited their designing knowledge to only a few fabrics.

Questions were thrown and the answers she gave were as brilliant as they were eloquent. She knew her stuff. Her craft seemed borderless and her knowledge about tailoring seemed alien, positively, so to say.

Christine Nakimuli, a local designer says she was so nervous for her knowledge while Mary Akullo, a Ugandan designer based in Nairobi said her knowledge of tailoring was overwhelming.

She surely left many more designers awed and inspired, yet, like the mission of Kampala Fashion Week which is “Motivating, Inspiring and Creating Artistry”, her stuttering wasn’t the only thing they were going to talk about when they went back to their respective studios and workshops.

It was Gloria Wavamuno’s school of thought that would linger forever. It tore down many idiosyncrasies about Ugandan fashion.

She wrapped up the night with such authority. Her knowledge about the fashion market was the clincher. She took the designers through a series of fashion notions, breaking them down to the slightest bits atop encouraging them to believe in their craft.

This, she did, before reminding them of the Kampala Fashion Week that is slated for 15th of November 2014 after which she dismissed a satisfied congregation of designers.Read more at:marieprom.co.uk cheap prom dresses