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Nigerian-Born Duro Olowu Democratizes His Designs
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Nigerian-born designer Duro Olowu's print-heavy, color-saturated clothes have garnered high-profile clients including Michelle Obama — at equally high price tags. But the sundresses, handbags, sandals, luggage and home goods in his new limited-edition collaboration with JCPenney (Jcpenney.com) all cost $90 or less, making his worldly wares accessible to nearly anyone.
Q: How did you get your start?
A: I designed this one particular style of dress, put together in different limited-edition prints. It would sell out at Barneys, Jeffrey, all over the world. I was nominated for Best New Designer at the British Fashion Awards, and I won, based on that one dress. It was really kind of a whirlwind.
Q: What type of woman do you think wears your designs?
A woman who is real. She's not a fashion fanatic, but she loves beautiful clothes and beautiful things. She wears things that people will remember and that she will remember.
Q: Yours will be the first designer collaboration with JCPenney. What was the process like?
A: I thought, if you're the first, you can ask for total creative control. They just kind of said yes to everything! I'm very hands on. With the ad campaigns, the photographers, the mod
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Booklist: Curator and Designer Duro Olowu’s ‘Top 10’ Includes Fela Kuti, David Hammons, Alma Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Designer Duro Olowu
A STANDARD BEARER for fashion, art, design, and style, Duro Olowu is inspired by a spectrum of individuals—cultural figures past and present, including the inimitable Grace Jones, musician and activist Fela Kuti, couturier Madame Grés (Alix Barton), and fashion designer Willi Smith.
Olowu’s “Top 10” list, published in the May/June 2020 edition of Artforum, also features artists David Hammons, Henri Matisse, Alma Thomas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. A Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer and curator, Olowu describes Thomas as “one of the greatest—and most woefully underrecognized—American Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth century.” He is also in awe of Hammons. Olowu considers Hammons to be “the most important artist of his generation.”
In 2014, a rare survey of Hammons, curated by the artist himself, was on view at White Cube Mason’s Yard in London. Olowu’s Mayfair boutique is steps away from the gallery and he says he frequented the exhibition. “I must have visited at least fifteen times. Each pilgrimage gave me more energy,