{"id":16,"date":"2014-05-29T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:24:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1405_About.jpg\" alt=\"About Fashion Institute\" width=\"870\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1405_About.jpg 870w, http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1405_About-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fashion Institute is an organisation dedicated to the advancement, promotion and development of fashion within the South African, and African continental spaces. \u00a0 Fashion Institute is the holding\u00a0body for our fashion week platforms, and the projects we develop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fashion Institute is headed by a team of professionals on a nomination process, which see&#8217;s the members get elected on a 2 year basis. \u00a0The executive team is responsible for the running and management of all platforms, events and projects. \u00a0The 2014 team will be announced on 30 July 2014, at the Fashion Institute offices in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fashion Institute owns and operates multiple fashion related events, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SA Menswear Week<\/li>\n<li>Cape Town Swimwear Week<\/li>\n<li>Couture and Bridal Shows<\/li>\n<li>Mens Expo International<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Development:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Various projects that are funded through our stakeholders and event profits run throughout the year to develop, support and work with our designers. We also have designer exchange programmes with international fashion weeks for our designers, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London Collections: Men<\/li>\n<li>Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week SWIM \u00a0(Miami Swimwear Week)<\/li>\n<li>Africa Fashion Day Berlin<\/li>\n<li>Lagos Fashion and Design Week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please read more about our programmes on the Development page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion Institute is an organisation dedicated to the advancement, promotion and development of fashion within the South African, and African continental spaces. \u00a0 Fashion Institute is the holding\u00a0body for our fashion week platforms, and the projects we develop. Team: Fashion Institute is headed by a team of professionals on a nomination process, which see&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fashioninstitute.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}