PERSON: Asya Idarous Khamsin

Fashion Designer

Asya Khamsin (Asia Idarous Khamsin) is a Tanzanian designer known for organizing fashion shows that showcase new designers. She is regarded as the mother of Tanzanian fashion, “mama wa mitindo” . She is a director of Fabak in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and runs the annual Lady in Red and Kanga Za Kale fashion shows.

She received the Humanitarian Award at Swahili Fashion Week 2012, the most respected female designer award at Sanaa Awards (Mwanamke anaheshimika zaidi kwenye fashion industry Tanzania), and she is the 2014 Swahili Fashion Week Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

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