Background

Abigail Keats attended Dainfern College in her teen years. http://www.dainferncollege.co.za/alumni/557-abigail-keats-launches-fashion-line Later she graduated top of her year from the SA London International School of fashion in 2007 http://www.lisof.co.za and launched her first collection at Audi Fashion Week

Fashion Week

A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...

 2008 as part of the autumn/winter New Generation Designer show. http://wn.com/Abigail_Keats_Spring_Summer_2008_Fashion_collection

Since then she has also showed her collections at Joburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

 Fashion Week, Audi

Audi

Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....

 Fashion Week and Arise Africa Fashion week - AFI http://www.africanfashioninternational.com/index.php/designer-directory/abigail-keats/159

Keats has also been invited to showcase in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 and Miami, and has been selected as the "designer of the month" in South African Elle magazine

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

 (Elle Magazine, June 2008, Vol 13 No 3, Page 38) and the ‘designer to watch’ in Cosmopolitan magazine

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

 (Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 2008, Vol 25 No 5, Page 45) and ‘featured designer’ in life style magazine Ray (Ray Magazine, 2009, issue 3, Page 120 - 123).

Keats Signature Style

Keats signature style is best described as a sophisticated contemporary art form that plays with the paradox of masculine tailoring, while exaggerating a feminine figure. The focus throughout all her collections is embedded in exerting the power of a woman while magnifying the beauty and grace of her being and form. Her love for art, self-expression and creation is the inspiration on which all her collections are fashioned.

Snippets

April 2009, Miss FTV Grand Finale, finalists took to the stage and stunned audiences with elegant and fashionable design

Design

Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

s created by well-known designers such as David Tlale, Abigail Keats, Earth Child and Heni http://www.bizcommunity.com/Gallery/196/427/735.html

June 2010, Abigail Keats is published by Mail & Guardian

Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian is a South African weekly newspaper, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a strong focus on politics, government, the environment, civil society and business.- The Mail & Guardian newspaper :...

 newspaper as one of the top 200 Influential Young South Africans http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-business-and-law

June 2010, Abigail Keats is selected by the South African Government to represent South Africa at the World Expo 2010, Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 - A Grand Gathering of the World Cultures.http://en.expo2010.cn/

Picture Gallery

External links

• Abigail Keats home page / Designer Profile