Showing posts with label Designers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Designers. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Labo Ethnik Paris 2011: David Tlale



Wednesday, June 8, 2011

AFRICAN FASHION DESIGNER: Victoria Wreh



Victoria Wreh is a young Liberian designer who uses her inspiration from being in a refugee camp for 10 years to create unique and modern designs using African prints.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Liberian designer Fanta Kamara for Marazetti

 According to her website Fanta Kamara was born in Monrovia, Liberia, a small country on the West Coast of Africa. Wasn't too long before the country experienced its first major power struggle; a country of sixteen ethnic tribes of which everyone wanted a presidency representative. Chaos stroked and Liberia's fifteen years of civil war began. Rear in Monrovia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Singapore, due to the war; unlike many others, Fanta experienced an unaccommodating childhood, but her strength and determination allowed her to have sustained the horrific war conditions. In late 2000, Fanta and her family moved to the United States, where she completed her secondary and post-secondary education. A tomboy growing up, fashion was the last thing on her mind; she studied Pharmacology, Management, Computer Programming and Information Technology at renowned universities in the US. Fanta's initial femini experience was her high school prom, where no baggy jeans, or basketball shorts, or Jordan, or Nikes, or Timberlands were allow;---dresses and stilettoes only! Everyone encouraged her to pursue modeling --- She first tried a hand at pageantry; after winning Miss Universal Youth and Miss Liberia Ohio, she decided pageantry bordered her-it was too tailored and didn’t allowed much creativity. Modeling became her new passion in life---staring in her college annual fashion shows to walking numerous of international runways including New York and Milan and being featured in major ad campaigns. 

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Designer spotlight : Kwesi Nti

 Kwesi Nti is the head designer of Tribe clothing  a Ghanaian fashion house .According to his website Kwesi Nti Ltd, in its eighteen (18) years of existence has produced a lot of laurels, being one of the few designers who design both clothing and footwear in Ghana.The company has high class clientele which includes heads of States on the African continent and also has a competitive market in America and Europe.This Italian trained, talented Ghanaian designer believes he has only begun in his quest to attain true high fashion that is at work.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Spotlight on Renee Q


  Renee  Boateng is the fabulous young entrepreneur designer behind the line "Bespoke" which was founded in 2006 . This line is really the Trend  in town and  I am loving it . .The designs are  what I call  a fusion of tees and couture .The tees are  simple and very dressy .Here is Renee in her In her own words :

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Exclusive interview with the Designer of N'kya Designs




Ciaa:Tell us a little bit about yourself  
Sheila:I am a British born Ghanaian who has lived in both countries long enough to appreciate what they have to offer. I am currently based in London.

Ciaa: how did you get into designing?
Sheila: It started off as a hobby really and the excitement grew from there, I definitely did not set out to get into this the fashion world but am glad I did.