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BlackScissors urge designers to complement African film industry.

September 17, 2004 -- In a press release issued during the just ended Zimbabwe International Film Festival (ZIFF 2004), BlackScissors said, "fashion designers can be oddly complementary in time, place, and sense to African film productions being set in different eras, or in locations they have never visited or known."

"If designers extend their knowledge in fashion, their subtle use of colour in designs, functional detail, cut and fit, the wardrobe becomes technically perfect," said the designers.

BlackScissors said, "International film festivals such as ZIFF offer opportunities of creative expression, and if African costume designers are involved in African film projects, they will be on par with world class couturiers and will surely have a palpable influence on public taste."

Fashion captures the look of any given society, recreates the old reflects the modern, and invents the future, evoking both present and past historical ideas. Fashion strengthens characters, adds flamboyance, sophistication, competence, ability and style. It creates images of the working class, the youthful, the adult, the party goers, and it gives an edge of erotica, power, and wealth as well as images matched to people"s status.

BlackScissors ,Zimbabwe"s futuristic design house was founded by the versatile artist Novell Zwangendaba, and Peter Rabvukwa (jr.) who quit piloting to pursue fashion. The duo has actively supported the arts designing for leading musicians, actors and TV presenters.