Fabbelle
This project was born on a trip to Ghana, where I came across street tailors who had on the walls pictures of clothes to be reproduced, people take fabric to their local dressmakers for special occasions, work and church.
This kind of outfitting is the foundation of the fashion industry in Ghana. Unlike emerging fashion houses, street fashion shops are not formally structured. The designers, who are mostly called tailors, regardless of their gender work from kiosks, containers or rented stores that are often decorated with popular Accra made fashion calendars.These are the people determining the popular fashion trends in the country. These tissue African standards are vibrant and serve for everything, shirts, ceremony, shorts, hats, and children's clothing.
That's when I had the idea to design a Collection of Handbags with these fabrics a luxury brand bag, made in Europe, more precisely in Portugal.
Portugal has great craftsmanship on leather goods and is among the world's best, so I wanted to take advantage of the industry and explore new markets where these fabrics are sold and used on a large scale.
The idea is to combine the best of both worlds: the African Patterns with European leathers treated with uniqueness for each collection and each color.
