Launched in 1999, the Design Academy of Fashion has quickly become one of the top Fashion schools in South Africa. Founded by Daphne Treadaway, it was bought in 2006 by Bianca Fobian and Suzanne Aldridge.
A vision for continued excellence and a contemporary approach to education has seen the Academy grow in leaps and bounds.
Our Mission
To provide quality education and training, conducive to the optimal development of each student by ensuring individual attention and commitment to learners, to maximise their unique potential and equip them to enter the fashion industry in any fashion field
with confidence, expert knowledge and skills.
With a contemporary apporoach to education, the education fosters inquisitive learning through the encouragement of individual development, focussing on the strengthes of each student and the exploration of possibilities in engaging the world through their
unique point of view as designers.