Designers 2013
Meet our 2013 designers. All 6 designers used the opportunity of the Umoja Fashion Show event to showcase their take on contemporary African fashion. By tapping the immense beauty and creativity the African textile market has to offer, our designers brought forward cutting-edge garments for cosmopolitan, modern people. To visit their website click on their logo.
Ethnography
By Jessica Nilsson
Ethnograpy is a brand dedicated to empowering women, meant to celebrate their diversity and acknowledge their unique beauty. We grew tired of the fashion stereotypes circulating in popular culture and set out to prove that any confident woman can be gorgeous. Our designs all tell a story of East African Beauty, of East Africa and its Indian influences, and of its colonial heritage.
Malaika Designs
By Adwoa Ode-Dombrowe & Rosemary Dede
The world has many facets? So do we!
Malaika Designs represents a uniquecultural mix combined with modernity. An innovative fashion for all those of us who whish to blen an unusual class with comfortable clothing.
Malaika means angel or good spirit in Swahili
Kinses
By Rosy Sambwa
Kinses is a Belgian-Congolese brand. Its characteristic is to be composed of materials different in essence but that mingle perfectly to integrate a moder Afro-European vision. Kinses creates without divisions in place, time or nation.
A part of the benefit goes to the Non Profit organisation "Coup 2 Pouce"
Maono Designs
By Bosele Chimene
I'm a Congolese who grew up in Belgium and has aspiration to make the difference as an African citizen at my own level. There is a need to acknowledge African Fashion, and to bring this to a worldwide fashion and consumer scene.
"Maono" means "vision" in Swahili
Omokomo
By Omotunde Komolafe
Omokomo is a clothing label dedicated to creating unique garments and accessories ofhigh quality for people with a taste for handmade and personalized items. The designer aims to marry African fabrics with urban an European style. His goal is to make garments and accesories wearable for all
Oryginis
By Liliane Malemo
& Juliette Berguet
Our collection is inspired by different origins and cultures, from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Oryginis portrays the "overabundance" of the Worldas we draw our originality and roots in the different cultures, costoms and other elements.
"Oryginis" derives from the Latin "origo", the beginning