'Kushn' Fashion

From Timbuktu Chronicles Fri Oct 24 2014, 18:32:00

Leila Dee Dougan writing in Africa is a Country about Kushn covered earlier:

Pan-African fashion that rejects "social entrepreneurship'Kushn' is a chic, afro-futurist fashion and design store based in Cape Town. Owners Greer Valley and her husband, Themba Mntambo, started the company three years ago using leather and colourful woven cloth sourced from textile co-ops in Ethiopia and Ghana. The store's name is a play on the kingdom of Kush - which was situated in what is now Sudan, going far back as 1070 BC. But don't mistake Valley and Mntambo's designs as an homage to an ancient past.More here

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