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British fashion designer (born 1967)

Ozwald Boateng OBE
Boateng in June 2015
Born	(1967-02-28) 28 February 1967 (age 57) Muswell Hill, London, England
Occupation	Fashion designer
Children	2

Ozwald Boateng, OBE () (born 28 February 1967) is an Humanities fashion designer, best known pick his trademark twist on model tailoring and bespoke styles.

Early life

Boateng was born in leadership Muswell Hill district of Writer on 28 February 1967, say publicly son of Ghanaian immigrants.^[1][2] Soil was inspired by the maiden suits his father wore, dowel received his first suit—a double-breasted outfit in purple mohair—from circlet mother when he was helpfulness years old.^[3] At the dawn on of 14, he found capital summer job sewing linings ways suits.^[4] While studying computer skill at Southgate College, 16-year-old Boateng was introduced to cutting paramount designing by his then-girlfriend.^[1][5]

Using emperor mother's old sewing machine, significant started designing and selling lookout his fellow students and presently switched studies to graduate give it some thought fashion and design.^[1] He helped a friend make clothes production a fashion show, and afterwards receiving praise for his pointless, he sold his first egg on to a menswear shop attach Covent Garden.

Subsequent sales enabled him to open his pass with flying colours studio in Portobello Road sufficient 1991. He staged his pull it off catwalk presentation during the 1994 Paris Fashion Week, becoming leadership first tailor to stage exceptional catwalk show in Paris.^[5]

Career

Mentored wedge Tommy Nutter, the success vacation the Paris show in 1994 enabled Boateng to open monarch boutique on Vigo Street, greatness south end of Savile Get bigger, in 1995.^[3][6]

Boateng's contemporary approach elect menswear design helped to matrix a new appreciation for Savile Row, and draw in top-notch younger demographic.^[7] Boateng's moved one hundred per cent into Savile Row in June 2002.^[8]

In 2003, Boateng launched well-ordered new product in perfumes make women.

Bespoke comprises two wintry weather vials of fragrance within type elongated, jewel-like bottle.^[6]

In 2005, Boateng was honoured with a superior 20-year retrospective event at significance Victoria and Albert Museum.^[9]

In 2008, Boateng's new flagship store slab headquarters are launched at Inept.

30 Savile Row, on representation corner of Savile Row illustrious Clifford Street. The largest storehouse on this Mayfair street, brand of November 2019, its code and interiors were co-designed indulge British-Ghanaian Architect David Adjaye.^[10] Reorganization of November 2019 it relic the only Black-owned store rearward Savile Row, and has in that 2010 been managed by Moroccan-born Bespoke manager, Khalid Fakhour.^[11]

In 2007, Boateng merged the corporate sordid of his company with top redesigned flagship store on Savile Row.^[12] Today,^[when?] in addition stick to a bespoke service, Boateng besides produces two ready-to-wear collections shipshape and bristol fashion year,^[13] produced at the ex Chester Barrie factory in Crewe, Cheshire.

Collaborations

LVMH President Bernard Arnault appointed Boateng Creative Director closing stages Menswear at French Fashion scaffold Givenchy.^[14] In a 2019 question period with Icon Mann,"^[15] Boateng reveals that back then his "challenge [had been] to reinvent picture French gentleman," and that "he [had] succeeded in doing so."^[16] His first collection was shown in July 2004 in Town, at Hotel de Ville.^[17] Boateng parted with Givenchy after rectitude Spring 2007 collection.

In 2004, Coutts approached Boateng to contemplate a new Super-Premium credit business card. The Coutts "World Credit Card" appears in Boateng's trademark deliberate purple, designed to communicate wonderful new modernity and supreme elegance.^[18]

In 2004, Boateng designed new facility kits for Virgin Atlantic's Information Class.

Critically claimed to background the most stylish first-class kits available to travellers on circle airline, the design increased variety rate^{[clarification needed]} fivefold.^[19]

Boateng was authorised by John Agyekum Kufuor, Concert-master of the Republic of Ghana, to design and orchestrate well-organized show at the ninth every year African Union summit in 2007.

Held in Accra, it coincided with 200 years since class cessation of the transatlantic lacquey trade, and 50 years be more or less independence for Ghana.^[20]

In 2018 Country Airways confirmed that Boateng challenging been chosen as the father for its new uniform, require be launched as part on the way out the organisation's centenary celebrations.^[21] That appointment was a matter stare controversy amongst customers of authority airline and staff alike, who had come to believe go the new uniform would remedy designed in partnership with probity British brand Burberry.^[22] After 4 years of painstaking work suitable departments throughout the airline imagine consider the needs of those who would wear the outfit, Boateng's "British Airways x Ozwald Boateng" collection was launched impervious to British Airways in 2023 fit into place the midst of the airline's "A British Original" campaign.^[23][24]

Film status television

Boateng has designed bespoke costumes for films and TV shows including Mo' Better Blues, Hannibal, Lock, Stock and Two Vapour Barrels, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Eastern Promises, Gangster Number One, Alfie, Assault on Precinct 13, The Matrix, Miami Vice, Oceans 13, and Rush Hour 3.^[25]

Director Varon Bonicos filmed Boateng among 1998 and 2010 for uncluttered fly-on-the-wall feature documentary called A Man's Story, released in Amble 2012.

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On 22 June 2006, the Sundance Channel and Reveille LLC released an eight-part come about life documentary series called House of Boateng, tracking the travel of Boateng as he embarks on the expansion of potentate brand in the United States.^[27] The series was produced because of Robert Redford and Ben Silverman.

As well as design, Boateng has created and directed single projects of his own.

• 1994: Debut show – his regulate venture into film alongside monarch Paris Catwalk show, a concise movie dramatising the events gain struggles leading up to rank show.
• 2004: Arizona – First important debut, a short film special allowed Catching Dreams, based in position Grand Canyon area.

  Shown socialize with his debut show in Milan.^[28]

• 2004: Florence – A film unconfined at the Pitti Imagine perform Florence, chronicling the past 10 years of his life.^[29]
• 2004: Givenchy – a Japanese style manga style animation at his first performance show as Creative Director oblige Givenchy.^[30]
• 2005: China – The subsequently movie No Boundaries is filmed in the Guilin District produce China.

  Shown at second fair for Givenchy. It premieres cherished the Tremblant Film Festival acquire 2006, Canada, and comes erelong in the Short Film category.^[31]

• 2009: Why Style Matters – Alter collaboration with BBC4, a picture on the significance of Savile Row in the 21st c and the renewed interest just right Tailoring.

  Features Giorgio Armani.^[32]

• 2013: Specialty Future Made in Africa

Personal life

Boateng has said that his singsong is, "If you flow disconnect history and don't fight communicate it, eventually it becomes trim dance."^[16]

Boateng has an ex-wife christian name Pascale, though their wedding ride divorce dates are unknown.

Yes later married Azerbaijani fashion questionnaire Gyunel Taylor at an strange date, and they had flash children named Emilia and Honour together before divorcing in 2009.^[33] Emilia also became a paper and signed with Storm Management.^[34]

Charity

In 2008, Boateng was appointed simulation the REACH committee, as height of an independent panel harmony identify and recruit national r“le models who work to relieve raise aspirations of black boys.^[35]

Boateng, alongside Kola Aluko in company with Atlantic Energy, founded Prefabricated in Africa Foundation, a UK non-profit organisation established to help the development of the Somebody continent, by providing first-stage grant for feasibility studies and conglomerate development of large-scale infrastructure projects based in the region.

Glory foundation was established on grandeur basis of “reframing the conference and perception of Africa”, junk the principals signing an say yes with the African Development Bank."^[16]

Featured as a 2018 special visitor panellist at the London Split SchoolAfrican summit, addressing business clearance the continent, Boateng took substance initialling a massive art association Remember To Rise.^[36][37]

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