Fashion Designer

Born in Ghana in the late 1960s and brought up in north London, Ozwald Boateng studied computing before dropping out to pursue fashion. He began making bespoke suits in 1990, and is widely credited with introducing Savile Row tailoring to a new generation. The first tailor to stage a catwalk show in Paris, Boateng's many clients include Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Keanu Reeves and Mick Jagger.

While studying computing at Southwark College, he was introduced to cutting and designing clothes by his girlfriend at the time. With his mother's help who was an excellent seamstress, he started selling his mother's designs to passerbys along Portobello Road. At twenty-three, disllusioned with a mundane job in IT, he had set himself up full time in business.

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NYT > Art & Design

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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:48:04 -0000
Denver is hoping to declare its emerging artistic identity to the world next week when the gaze of the global news media and political power turns on the city.
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:28:09 -0000
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:57:15 -0000
Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations.
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:13 -0000
This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center has been transformed into an urban farm.
Art Review: Indian Modernism via an Eclectic and Elusive Artist
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:18:00 -0000
“Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)" delivers a significant piece of news: that modernism wasn’t a purely Western product sent out to a hungry and waiting world.
China Won’t Lend Artworks to Asia Society Exhibition
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:28:26 -0000
The Chinese Ministry of Culture had originally agreed to allow the society to borrow works for “Art and China’s Revolution,” promoted as among the first shows devoted to that era.

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