I make cloth
that holds memory.
Textile artist / Indigo dyer / Hackney, London
My practice is built around adire — the indigo-dyed, resist-patterned cloth made by Yoruba women in southwestern Nigeria for generations — and what it means to carry that knowledge forward into a contemporary wardrobe.
I hold a BA and MA in womenswear from Central Saint Martins. I worked in the ateliers of Iris Van Herpen in Amsterdam and Gareth Pugh in London. Then I found my way back to the cloth that had always been there.
I work from my studio in Hackney. I make bespoke and limited-edition pieces — not collections, not seasons. Each piece is made here, by hand, for one person. Before I begin, I want to know who you are.
Making something for you means feeding in who you are — your history, your way of holding yourself. That conversation is where the cloth begins.
Designer in Residence
Design Museum London
In 2020, I was invited to be one of four Designers in Residence at the Design Museum London, in the programme’s thirteenth edition themed Care. I spent a year investigating how the exchange of craft and skill functions as an act of love — gathering the stories of West African women living in the UK, sitting with the question of what adire carries with it across borders and generations.
The residency produced a womenswear collection and a film. Iyá Àlàro — the name for the master indigo dyer in Yoruba tradition — is what that year of work became.
- Design Museum London2021
- Victoria and Albert Museum2021
- National Maritime Museum2024