Nkwo onwuka biography channel

Interview by Visual Collaborative
July 2019 5 min read

NKWO is an artisanal fashion brand based in Nigeria and one of the few establishments at the forefront of the sustainable fashion movement in Africa.

By experimenting and exploring modern innovative techniques, NKWO aims to harness the capabilities of technology as a sustainable way of preserving traditional African craft skills. In our “Vivencias” interview series, Nkwo joins us to talk about her industry sustainable fashion and forthcoming projects.

(VC) Fashion is always in a stage of flux and re-emergence in a rapid consumerism world, your brand has a sustainability component to it, Is the flamboyant fashion world responding at the rate you want it to?

(Nkwo) The fashion world has always had different tribes, we found ours early on, it was small but it was loyal.

Suddenly, we find ourselves in a world that is buzzing around ‘sustainability’. As one the leading sustainable fashion bran