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).
