Biography of south african designer david tlale
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In the early 80s in Vosloorus, a township east of Johannesburg, fashion design wasn’t high on the list of good career choices.
In fact, it wasn’t on the list at all.
Biography of south african designer david tlale
Teacher, engineer, lawyer, accountant – these were the sorts of things matrics were supposed to aspire to. David Tlale, however, wasn’t interested – not for very long, at least – in the things he was supposed to become.
“I went to register to study auditing at the Tshwane University of Technology,” the royalty of the SA fashion scene says, sitting on a chair fittingly plated in gold with a crown dangling from the back.
Auditing, of course, is not the route to fashion stardom and it took a nudge in the right direction for him to find his path. “On the campus I used to see these crazy-looking students always overdressed carrying big portfolios.
One day, I stopped one of them saying, ‘Listen, I’m sorry,