THE YOUTHING MAGAZINE FASHION PASSION ISSUE | Page 29

FANTIX ALL IT TAKES TO OWN A CLOTHLINE Did you study fashion designing at school? Not really, fashion is like a talent in me ,all what I did is to learn tailoring skills from a friend of mine the rest was from You tube vedios. Moreso I am a mechanical engineering student. What is that one thing that every designer must have? Every designer must be creative and innovative, this is by coming up with a new design/style of wear. For a designer to win the market he /she should be unique and come with an outfit that the clients will like. How much did it cost you to start your own clothline? For a start I had like Ksh 30,000 where I bought my machine and some Ankara material I used ksh300k to start top collection shop which is located in Barsheba Mombasa. What has been the major challenge in this journey? My major challenge is time, I am a student so I use less time in fashion and designing. Finance is another problem that I face, sometimes I lack capital to expand my clothline bearing in mind am from a humble background. Have you had instances where you feel like quitting? Yes. What caused that? I lack support from family members and my friends also discouraged me by saying that I should only concentrate on my engineering course leave away fashion. How long does it take you to design one cloth? A simple cloth will take 3 hrs to make example a skirt. Complex one can take a day .Cutting a piece of material into a desired design is what consumes time because if you mess up during cutting you also mess up the desired design.