This is the collection that’s responsible for some of the weird secondhand stuff I’ve been buying lately: a ’90s hybrid dress, half blue knit sweater, half black fabric; a knitting pattern from the ’80s featuring a terrified-looking model wearing some questionable (but kind of amazing) short-sleeved sweaters that I really need to make.
Ghana (and L.A.)-based Osei-Duro’s fall collection looks like it belongs on the eccentric 1980s art teacher I never had, and I kind of love it.
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All you have to do is say Ghana and I’m down. So fun. I miss African fabric so much.
Brooke, it’s gorgeous! I love all the prints and colors.
Thanks so much for posting the images. Your site is beautiful! SS13 coming soon! xoxox
Oh and you pretty much nailed it: 80′s/90′s we are so inspired by the “dead white man’s market” in Ghana – all the second hand stuff from the West that’s been hauled over for resale. And also art teachers. Though we refer that style as “Waldorf mom, or German mom”! xo
Whoa, what a cool inspiration. I like Waldorf/German mom even better than ’80s art teacher.
And thanks for liking my site. Also thanks for the spring update–can’t wait!
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