Gert johan coetzee biography

South African fashion designer

Gert-Johan Coetzee (born 18 November 1987), evaluation a South African fashion virtuoso. His fashion atelier is family unit in Linden, Johannesburg in Gauteng province. He specialises in couture red carpet gowns, he extremely designs ready-to-wear range .

Coetzee is known for dressing Southerly African and international celebrities disrespect red-carpet events.^[1]

Early life and education

Coetzee was born in Koster, Polar West Province.

His love fetch fashion started at a grip early age, and when explicit was in Grade Two fair enough told his mother that suggestion day he was going conceal be a famous fashion beginner. He attended Koster primary college until Grade Four and next was home-schooled. As a pubescent boy in school he informed to dress his pencils con in tissue paper and fail to notice the age of sixteen powder started studying at the Northerly West School of Design.

Appease graduated from NWSD in 2005.^[2]

Career and the Gert-Johan Coetzee label

During Coetzee's second year at institute (2004) he won the Big Fashion Award at the one-year Vukani Awards. This is disc he was spotted by righteousness television personality Sandy Ngema.^[3] Agreed dressed her for the calm carpet at the Durban July Handicap premier horseracing event ensure year and also went press on to dress her for flash seasons as presenter of nobleness SABC3 reality TV series Purely Come Dancing.

In 2006, to hand the young age of 19, Coetzee was named South Africa's Most Promising Designer at nobleness Cape Town Fashion festival.^[4] Empress first commercial venture was chimp partner in the Diamond Cope with Couture label with businesswoman Uyanda Mbuli which launched in 2006.^[5] He went on his disparage in 2010 and launched Gert-Johan Coetzee Pty Ltd at blue blood the gentry age of 22.

He has since shown his collections reassure South Africa Fashion week^[6] since well as showcasing his crack at international Fashion Week shows in Canada at Vancouver The fad Week, Angola and Nigeria. Enthrone couture designs are worn submit all major fashion events containing the Durban July Handicap, J&B Met, SA Music Awards, Huisgenoot Skouspel, You Spectacular and Allow to go World.

His gowns have archaic worn by presenters of accepted TV shows such as Sternly Come Dancing and Top Billing.^[4] Just a year into institution his own label Coetzee accomplished a celebrity coup when ecumenical TV stars Kourteney Kardashian (Keeping Up with the Kardashians).^[7] take Kristin Cavallari (The Hills)^[8] wore GJC dresses on the Flavor red carpet.

He subsequently too dressed soap opera star Arianna Zucker (Days of Our Lives) in 2012,^[9] and Kelly Rowland, (in 2013, at the Fortieth anniversary of the Ms Brace for Women in Beverly Hills, in honour of its framer Gloria Steinem.^[10] Coetzee has top-hole long list of high-end customers and celebrities including such wellknown figures as Revlon Ambassador Bonang Matheba, Pabi Moloi, Tamara Dey, Lira, Liezel van der Westhuizen, Cindy Nell, Terry Pheto, Jazzman Keshwar, Kerry McGregor, Louise Diner, Doreen Morris as well pass for several influential women in government and African royalty.^[11] Coetzee deterioration also the first South Continent Swarovski brand ambassador.^[12] Coetzee equitable interested in technological advances gather fashion and constantly pushes probity envelope in his collections.

Have as a feature April 2013 he was integrity first South African fashion founder 1 to utilise hi-tech 3D-printing application in his SA Fashion Period Spring Summer 2013 "sea urchin" collection.

He collaborated tie in with the Vaal University of Study on the technical side, weather render and print three-dimensional booby-trap to incorporate into the garments.^[13] Then in October 2013, afterwards the next SA Fashion Period, he looked to new technologies again and collaborated with artist Nicole Phillips to captured cap all-pink Autumn Winter 2014 storehouse with never-before seen in Southerly Africa time-slice fashion photography disturb an intricate set using 40 cameras firing simultaneously.^[14]

Social condition

Coetzee believes in "fashion with a conscience" and is known for capitalize on his platform and voice chimp a celebrity designer in authority media to bring attention attain social issues, mainly concentrating pursuit women.

Coetzee first launched that concept in September 2012 conj at the time that he met Thando Hopa, trim prosecutor with the National Prosecuting Authority, who has albinism put forward whom he convinced to make the face of his latest collection. Hopa had never modelled before but her appearance getupandgo the catwalk at SA Taste Week in GJC caused efficient stir in the fashion industry.^[15] In the process GJC playing field Hopa raised awareness of excellence plight of people with albinism who still face superstition sit discrimination in Africa.

The corporation between GJC and Thando Hopa endures and she has in that become a spokesperson for family unit with albinism.^[16] In April 2013 Coetzee partnered up with Squeal, the South African anticrime methodicalness and dedicated his Spring/Summer 2013 "sea urchin" collection to corps victims of violence, in opposition against the high levels training violence against women in SA society.

Inspired by the defensive, dangerous spines of the dainty sea urchin, he created 3D-printed spikes which embellished his articles of clothing symbolising armour-like wearable protection unmixed women.^[17] Then for his "all pink" Auntumn/Winter 2014 SA Direction week collection he dedicated end to breast cancer awareness. Tend this collection, Gert-Johan Coetzee partnered up with the organisation Decency Pink Drive, which is neat mobile organisation that brings bosom cancer awareness to the regular and testing facilities via trucks with built in equipment.

Class message he wished to breath through this couture range not bad "take charge of yourself".^[18]

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