What happens when music and fashion merge?

Darkie Fashion Show and After Party unleashed…
South Africa is proving itself as a fresh and aspiring voice in the fashion world and Cape Town Fashion Week is essential in creating a platform for our designers to compete both locally and globally.

Darkie will showcase its brand new spring/summer range at this year's Cape Town Fashion Week which is taking place 13-16 August. The Darkie design team is currently in the studio focusing on the new collection. Expect fresh and fast forward streetwear, innovative cuts, funky prints and a show inspired by music from the past, present and future.

Photos from 2007 CT Fashion Week

Darkie joins forces with Global Breakthrough
Since the dawn of time music and fashion have shared the same space. Both are strong memory indicators. When you think back to key moments in your life, what you were listening to sticks with you just as strongly as what you were wearing.

Ultimately these two key society elements feed off one another, like how the grunge era was defined by its look as much as it was by the sounds of Nirvana and Pearl Jam and the Sex Pistols fuelled punk as a backlash against disco. You can't live without clothes (if not for the rules society enforces, then at least for climate reasons), but could you really live without music?

In terms of tone and attitude the Darkie Fashion Show will be inspired by musical legends and style icons.

Darkie is a street brand with an underground edge. And so it wasn’t long before the match was made and Global Breakthrough was tasked with producing the mother of all after parties. All in attendance will be presented with a visual experience as enticing as the aural force already anticipated by those in the know.

The DJ line up for the night will be headlined by a very special guest from the City of Gold, alongside Global Breakthrough residents Marshall, Leighton Moody and Peter A. Marshall will pick up from where the fashion show ends with an eclectic concoction of sounds blending into all things deep in house.

The location for the after party is the Auto Atlantic MINI showroom. Within a short distance of the ICC, it is sure to be a big draw card, but it’s the music and the mind blowing custom visuals that will keep people talking long after the party ends.