#MBFWCT | Stefania Morland

The show was about to begin and while everyone was getting seated, My eyes were fixated by the projector screening of these most freaky yet funny Japanese adverts. I and the photog next to me began to wonder as who in their right state of mind would come up with such ads and why were they being screened - then it hit me, perhaps the Stefania Morland S/S15 collection draws influences from Japan and these freaky adverts are to set the mood for show. 

ELLE Rising Star Design Award 2014

Being a fashion designer or being involved in any aspect that relates to fashion has always been a childhood dream of mine, I can almost recall my first year of high school during a life orientation class where the learning outcome for day had something to do with careers. Although a distant memory, I remember my teacher spoke words in the lines of,  high school being a step up an inclining staircase to the doors of our futures (poetic and profound –well, at least I thought then). During that lesson, we had to compose a piece on what we wanted to be when we left high school and confer what we wrote to the entire class. You see, primitive to the experience of observing attentively over a number of years while mother slaved on that singer sewing machine and utilising the cut outs to create ensembles for my younger sister Barbie, it was with no diffidence that fashion design would be my destined choice. I have no recollection on what exactly the written piece embodied, I however do remember struggling to spell Dolcé and Sun Goddess being at the apex off my endless list of favourite designers. (kindly place your judgement elsewhere - it was after all 2001).