[su_heading size=”10″ align=”left”]MAKI OH-FALL 2016 Ready-to-Wear | Amaka Osaka’s latest collection[/su_heading] Amaka Osakwe is never one to shy away from difficult subject matter, preferring instead to spin it into the rich, multilayered collections that have earned her an enviable celebrity clientele too including Solange, Lupita Nyong’o and none other than Michelle Obama, who also invited her the White House. For Fall, the designer posed the question: What does it mean to be a black woman? “[The collection] is quite dark, actually—as usual,” she laughed on a call from her native Nigeria. Mulling on that identity in all its nuance and power, as well as tropes like the angry black woman, Osakwe turned an introspective eye on the idea of silenced voices. “There’s really nothing I can do but be proud of who I am and just keep trying to make people see the beauty in me and my culture and all of what I stand for,” she offered. And beauty there was here, aplenty. [su_quote cite=”AMAKA OSAKWE” url=”http://www.iyabuea.com/”]The Maki Oh woman is reflective this season, giving rise to questions about life and how in it, we find both nothingness and meaning[/su_quote] [su_divider text=”MAKI OH What does it mean to be a black woman” divider_color=”#958410″ link_color=”#b409bb”] [su_divider text=”MAKI OH What does it mean to be a black woman” divider_color=”#958410″ link_color=”#b409bb”] [su_divider text=”MAKI OH What does it mean to be a black woman” divider_color=”#958410″ link_color=”#b409bb”] [su_divider text=”MAKI OH What does it mean to be a black woman” divider_color=”#958410″ link_color=”#b409bb”]
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