Destiny's Child Michelle Williams Models for Koshie O.

Koshie O. is a women's clothing line integrating African themes and aesthetics with modern designs. The Koshie O. collection blends an African focus on luxuriant fabric and earthy symbolism with more fluid and practical modern designs required by a contemporary lifestyle. In some sense, Koshie O. is an echo of many of the globalizing currents that are simultaneously shaping Africa and introducing her kaleidoscope to the modern world.

The founder and CEO Nina Baksmaty is herself an embodiment of these transformations. She lives and was educated in the United States but was raised in Ghana along a line of traditional Ghanaian dressmakers and artisans who have served their local communities for several generations. Koshie O. creates garments with top quality fabrics which are globally selected to exacting standards and processed in many places including Ghana and New York City. Koshie O. is very careful when it comes to their production as they do not outsource labor to sweatshops. The production process assists in the livelihoods for quasi-independent artisans and small teams of professionals. Consistent with largely egalitarian West African traditions, it is Baksmaty's vision that Koshie O. will be accessible to people from all walks of life!

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