"Tissue in Ghana can be very specific," says Phyllis Taylor, the designer behind the line of clothing based in London, Sika. It sources traditional batik and printed fabrics of wax of country of origin of his family in West Africa and uses them to create silhouettes ready-to-wear pieces carefully West.
We respect the fabric and the porter in places that are important. There is a style of fabric that Ghanaian women could bring to the Church. And then another would be for marriages and burials, "she said." "" But what I doing me, making prints and make them work for any occasion, was unknown. In Ghana, they would make funny comments on", she adds."
But for each eye "tcu" and the side as Phyllis received in cities such as Kumasi and Oda, it seems even more need-it-now lust shoppers in London and New York who likes it female, easy to wear dresses in 1950 and forms reminiscent of 60 years.
Phyllis, a former music industry executive, began four years of a desire to export the sensitivity bold of the traditional dress of Ghana in the Western worldto Sika. "When I was young, I go there every summer and see all seamstresses autour.". I always thought that it is a shame that you could see only that in Ghana, "she said."
If she went to London College of Fashion, where she studied the pattern cut and dress making and then return to Ghana, where she was hired for seamstresses to make his work. While his company became (Sika has expanded in vitrified and accessories), it is too much. "I wanted to give these seamstresses a chance to sew on a large scale.". I work with women were able to move in large buildings, purchase of new machinery and hire more people, "she said."
Phyllis hope that Africa could one day be known in the industry of fashion for its plants. "Ghana does not have the same history of couture that the Italy or the India not but they are now learning new techniques and begins to see this making traffic could be diverted to Africa." I don't know if we are ready to immediately. But it is certainly possible. »