David Tlale, winner of the Arise Africa Fashion Week Designer award, will be showcasing his designs at the New York Fashion Week in September 2009.  Tlale’s designs have been lauded in South Africa and he is considered one of the premier fashion designers in South Africa and internationally.

David Tlale

The New York Fashion week will give Tlale a great boost and help expose his fashion sense to a much wider, more particular audience.  In his show which will be titled “Cultural Intimacy”, Tlale will be highlighting  ‘Africouture’ at its best – Swazi and Ndebele geometric patterns, ostrich eggshell jewellery, traditional beading, and Kudu horn all swathed in natural and skin-toned colors.

Tlale will be shocasing his designs in a category entitled Arise: African Promise Collective, which will feature Nigerian designers Tiffany Amber and Lisa Folawiyo, and Madagascar’s Eric Raisina.  His clothing line will be featured on the night of September 11th.  To see more of Tlale’s designs, visit his website.