Nigerian designer and inventive director primarily based in the US Teslow, Tessie Olese Amezlaunched her newest assortment, “From Africa to the world” Ankara Music Competition fifteenth Anniversary Version in Los Angeles.
The boys’s high fashion assortment, offered on the Los Angeles Academy on Sunday, September 1, reinterprets the Ankara cloth for a world viewers.
“My imaginative and prescient is to raise Ankara right into a construction that transcends cultural boundaries. I need Ankara clothes to be a product that everybody needs to put on, regardless of the place they’re from,” Oliseh-Amaize mentioned in an announcement.
“Ankara has develop into synonymous with Africa, however attributable to its reputation, it is easy to take this cloth without any consideration or view it as one thing that ought to solely be used as a handkerchief, turban or scarf. However there may be way more to Ankara. With this sequence, my purpose is to point out the world a facet of Ankara they’ve by no means seen earlier than.
Oliseh-Amaize, who received Nigeria’s Greatest Designer Award in 2006, continued: “I want to see folks in Japan carrying Ankara designs with confidence, not simply because they’re fashionable, however as a result of they’re purposeful, comfy, refined and professionally tailor-made. Ankara It might be seen as solely an African product, however whether it is welcomed by folks all over the world, it might develop into a world product. For Tesslo, “Africa Goes to the World” isn’t just a slogan, however a marketing campaign to carry Ankara to everybody. A household sport.
The brand new assortment blends city modernity with traditional avant-garde kinds and attracts inspiration from numerous African cultural themes. The designs are influenced by the Gerewal competition of the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and Chad, the imperial imagery of the Oba of Benin, the colourful Mmanu masquerade of southeastern Nigeria and the wealthy heritage of Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
Nigerian-American Hollywood stars added glamor to the night Folake OlofekuIdentified for her function in Bob Hearts Abishola, she co-hosted the occasion and wowed the viewers in a home made Tesslo costume.
This occasion is sponsored by Peter Lentinihas additionally welcomed a bunch of African Hollywood expertise, together with co-hosts, actors and comedians Sey BrownSierra Leonean actor; Duane Richmondactor, producer Kofi BoakyeChairman of the African Artists Affiliation Francis Onylumwait.
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