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As part of the fashion week in Oldenburg, the city's cultural bureau will be presenting trendy South African clothing on Saturday, September 15, created during a student competition in Buffalo City and made from the traditional "Shweshwe". This textile, which is also known as German Prints in reference to the small-patterned cotton fabrics that German settler women brought to South Africa around 1850, was traditionally only available in indigo blue. Meanwhile, it is produced in many colors, for example in rich red, chocolate brown or green. The dresses and suits are the result of a joint project by Da Gama, Walter Sisulu University and fashion designers from the Eastern Cape. Twenty models will present these creative modern cuts in the form of a living statue in Oldenburg. They are motionless to pose on podiums along Haarenstraße in the pedestrian zone. The Eastern Cape on the south coast of Africa is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Since 1995, Niedersachsen has been a partnership with a focus on vocational education and training. So also in Oldenburg, as the relations of university and schools go back to the 1990s. Since 2011, the city of Oldenburg has been intensifying its contacts with the Eastern Cape, and has been holding the "South Africa Encounters" since May, which presents contemporary culture, science and business in the emerging rainbow nation. Cooperation between City Oldenburg & Integration eV Lobe Ndoumbe, Cyrille