Our Reporter
Fashion and style is the focus of this week’s edition of CNN’s African Voices “Changemakers”, sponsored by national telecommunications company, Globacom.
Two trailblazers – Nkwo Onwuka, the Creative Director of Abuja-based Nkwo Design Studios, and Rich Mnisi, the Creative Director of Rich Mnisi, an exclusive label domiciled in South Africa – are featured on the episode.
Both guests are actively re-designing the African fashion landscape.
Onwuka strongly desires to reduce textile wastes as she focuses on creating limited edition of fashion styles from left-over pieces of denim, made-in-Nigeria cotton, end-of-line fabrics and cutting table wastes. She operates under the label, Dakala Cloth.
As an innovative fashion stylist, she transforms traditional methods of handcraft like weaving, beading, hand dyeing and embroidery to give newness to fabrics and make them suitable for conventional use.
Rich Mnisi is a young South African designer and graduate of Fashion Design and Business Management of the South African School of Fashion.
He specialises in pop-culture fashion and has founded his own brand, called OATH Studio.
In 2014, he won the African Fashion International Young Designer award at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa.
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Globacom urges viewers to watch African Voices on DSTV Channel 401 on Saturday at 9.30 a.m. Repeat broadcasts of the programme come up on Sunday at 4.30 a.m, 7.30a.m, 12.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
The programme will also be repeated on Monday at 4 a.m, while a two-part, 15-minute repeats will be shown on Tuesday and Wednesday at 6.45 p.m on both days.
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