Lira’s go-to clothier Sylvester Falata has traded stitching up ladylike silhouettes for portray as he steps into his newest profession as a visible artist.
Falata has dressed Lira at many vital levels in her profession – most memorably when the Really feel Good hit-maker walked the pink carpet as a nominee on the BET Awards in Los Angeles in 2012, trying ravishing in a beaded pink quantity.
All through his 18-year trend journey, the 39-year-old Mahikeng native, beneath his bespoke label Sylvester Falata Atelier, has dressed different well-known girls, from Miss SA pageant queens to A-list celebs on pink carpets.
“I’ve at all times created artwork, I simply by no means shared it, and till not too long ago, I by no means thought-about it as a profession possibility,” Falata says of his inventive expression that he beforehand stored non-public.
“In 2020, through the pandemic, I began sharing my artwork as a inventive outlet, to maintain myself busy and motivated as a result of no-one was going anyplace. As I started to share it, I quickly offered two items. One thing was occurring – there was curiosity in my art work, and I may make a profession out of it.”
Earlier than lengthy, Falata signed with a French artists’ company that launched his artwork to a world viewers.
“It was loopy that this was all occurring at a time after we had been beneath lockdown and there was not that a lot motion. The pandemic was a blessing in that I bought to good my craft and concentrate on creating extra fluidity in my artwork,” he says.
Falata’s trend journey started when he switched from an supposed profession in legislation to pursue trend design two weeks earlier than the beginning of the brand new educational yr.
“I visited a design faculty [the North West School of Design] for the enjoyable of it, and I fell in love with the setting and the folks. I assumed I’d take a niche yr [from law] and do that to cross the time,” he says.
“In my first yr, I used to be a finalist for the Vukani Younger Designer Search competitors in 2005. I then met my mentor, ex-Ethiopian supermodel Anna Getaneh and later Madagascar-born designer Eric Raisina.
