Today marks 30 years of KikoRomeo! It’s been an incredible journey and we’re grateful for everyone who has been part of it. Get ready for a party near you soon as we toast to the next 30 years ✨
Iona McCreath is a designer, researcher and strategist working at the forefront of regenerative fashion and textiles in East Africa. Free register to meet her via our bio link at te next WHF on February 21st 🙏🏼🤍 @iona_mccreath was the creative director of @kikoromeo , a pioneering Kenyan fashion house founded in 1996, for seven years. Her practice bridges design, research and cultural strategy, with a strong emphasis on regenerative practices and sustainability, circularity and heritage preservation. Drawing on her academic background in sociology from the London School of Economics and her time at Central Saint Martin’s, Iona explores the ways fashion can drive social change and economic empowerment. She has collaborated with artisans and textile communities across Africa to create collections that honour tradition while engaging with contemporary global aesthetics. Of note is her production work on the film ‘Temple Road for Yoshita 1967’ that won the grand prize at @asvoff_official 17 and the chapter she authored “Made in Kenya: A language of being” as part of @museumatfit exhibition and publication ‘Africa’s Fashion Diaspora.’
I am excited to be one of the designers featured alongside many other brilliant designers from across the continent in Traditon(al), an exhibition curated by Sunny Dolat for the State of Fashion Biennale.
It features two pieces from KikoRomeo made in collaboration with Eltayeb Dawelbait, the classic hand-painted coat and the Ewala textile that we developed together for SS24 inspired by symbols and beadwork patterns from the Turkana.
It is on at Circle Art until the 14th of April, don’t miss it!
