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Amaka Osakwe
Nigerian fashion designer
Amaka Osakwe (born 1987) is a Nigerian fashion designer and creator of the African-based fashion label named Maki Oh.
She has led her womanswear label since 2010 from Lagos, and it is a Nigerian-based label that is globally acknowledged.[1][2]
Life and career
Osakwe is of the Igbo tribe.
She studied at the Arts University Bournemouth where she received a BA in fashion studies. In autumn/winter 2010 she launched her label. Inspired by rural Ghana’s Dipo rites-of-passage ceremony, during which girls taking part are partially naked and ornately adorned, Osakwe has played with cloaking and ornamentation using traditional African fabrics.[3] Recently her label was discovered by the U.S.
fashion scene in 2012, when she presented her designs at the New York Fashion Week.[4] A signature of her brand is her use of a traditional Yoruba indigo-dyed textile called adire, a cultural specialty whose practice