Microsoft was my dream company and I was your average Joe and I’m here now and I’m living my dream everyday.” “I wasn’t a 4.0 student, I just had a dream, I had a passion and I had a mentor,” Davis says. Reflecting on her many experiences, Davis says her involvement in application development was merely one of several factors that helped her obtain a job at Microsoft - and that her passion for computer science really helped pave the path to her success. She developed a mobile weight loss application and made it to the first round.ĭavis says she mentors classmates at her university just like Lindstrom mentored her. Smith University in North Carolina, Davis she took part in Imagine Cup, a global competition for young technologists held by Microsoft. Visit the Leopard Frock website for the complete LookBook as well as other Marianne Fassler and Leopard Frock collections.When she attended college at Johnson C. This collaboration is inspired by Burundi artist, Serge Alain Nitegeka, whose powerful work deals with the same topics of disenfranchisement, border crossing and migration as with the MARIANNE FASSLER SS16/17 to form a well-crafted and designed project. It is representative of creative and social encounters shaped by hands, and aims to create a thought-provoking set of ideas around the multiple decisions taken to produce different creative and social encounters, particularly around border crossing and migration, globalisation and disenfranchisement.īorder Crossing, as the broader symbolic influence within the project, was first explored in a collaboration with Zimbabwe-based jewelry design company, MARIGOLD beads and subsequently launched at the FNB Joburg Art Fair. ![]() The visually arresting project embodies complex relations between genres and people. Art Direction by Lezanne Viviers & Rich Fumani Mnisi (Stylist). Bianca Abigail Smit, Huawa Dauda & Julia Otobo for MARIANNE FASSLER SS16/17. The disruption of print, texture and silhouette is always present in the signature Leopard Frock garments, but this year, it seems to be on steroids… somehow not making sense, yet always relevant and current. The range also crosses inter disciplinary borders, where design and craft meets art. ![]() It explores border crossing and migration, globalisation and disenfranchisement. This range is a reaction to the current zeitgeist. The design team at Leopard Frock originated most of these prints. In the MARIANNE FASSLER SS16/17 collection, vintage military clothing (a recurring theme in Fassler’s work), playfully interacts with prints reminiscent of paper cut outs and collage, a naïve escape from the harsh realities. Julia Otobo for MARIANNE FASSLER SS16/17. The MARIANNE FASSLER Johannesburg SS16/17 collection asks Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
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