Besides dressing some of the world’s most well-known celebrities, UK-based fashion designer Ozwald Boateng is now also focusing on developing power plants and railway lines in Africa.
Speaking at the recent New York Forum Africa in Gabon, Boateng said that being in fashion has given him an “instinct for timing” and that he believes Africa’s time has come.
“I could be very happy in London, designing my clothes and opening my shops around the world, but as a designer one of the things we learn is to understand the timing of things, because we don’t actually live in the present as designers, we design collections for the future… And I genuinely believe it is the time for Africa right now,”.
Boateng, whose parents were born in Ghana, is the youngest and first black tailor to open a shop on Savile Row, a famous London street known for its traditional bespoke tailoring. He is well-known for giving the British art of tailoring his own modern twist.
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