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First look: Rich Mnisi Nwa-Mulamula

Rich Mnisi just dropped his latest collection, and we’re obsessed.

Acclaimed fashion designer, Rich Mnisi took to Instagram this morning, to debut his latest collection. He captioned each post with the following text:

She is a sacred, powerful and spiritual component of my being – although she rests as a guardian in an ancestral realm, her spirit, lessons  and  sacrifices have defied temporal limitations and this is why for our Trans-seasonal ‘18 lookbook we explore the ancestral realm looking for her love.

Mothers are the cornerstone of African family structures. From generation to generation, mothers are revered to be fierce protectors, like a lioness to her cubs. They birth nations and carry the burdens of the world on their shoulders. They are the supreme representation of love, bravery  and strength . They are the ones known to hold a knife’s edge at the sharpest point. Their fortitude and personality traits are reincarnated through their children, their children’s children and lineage of loved ones who are likened to them. They are the timeless teachers of life and custodians of a  centre  of family rituals, customs  and  knowledge. When they cross over to live among the stars that overlook their own, their memory remains only in word; preserved through endearing stories told around a living room. Thus our matriarchs have continuously been erased or underrepresented in the patriarchal  centre  of memory and in the androcentric etymology of words that shape culture like “history” – from the  Greek  word  history  – meaning old  wise man .

My ethereal connection to her manifests in the form of where I draw inspiration. NWA-MULAMULA is my artistic muse. As the  centre  of my current inspiration,  her story  is a universal story of keeping  the memory  alive. She is a symbolic representation of African mothers in all their glory that has been lost in time, undocumented and buried in the depths of our hearts. 

The collection features eight looks for men and women, here are the selects from the 2018 women’s line.

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