Stories

Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs / Musician

Radical artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs has been an Osei-Duro homie for years now, cutting our hair, wearing our stuff on tour, in promo shots, all...

MaameYaa Boafo / Actress

MaameYaa Boafo plays the main character in the acclaimed series An African City. Her character Nana Yaa wears Osei-Duro throughout. We caught up in the...

Kenturah Davis / Artist and Osei-Duro Collaborator

We chat with Kenturah Davis, longtime friend and collaborator.

Natural Hand Dyed Indigo

Travelogue: Gujarat, India

Julie Clark / Province Apothecary

We met up with Julie Clark to talk about her business Province Apothecary.

Nana Oforiatta - Ayim / Curator

Nana Oforiatta-Ayim is having a moment, and Accra is having it right along with her. The opening of a large new gallery space for her...

Process: Riverbed

Anna Groth-Shive / Photographer and Producer

We talk to Producer and Photographer Anna Groth-Shive on her diverse projects, leisure dreams, and NYC tips. (btw you may also want to check out...

Process: Brass Casting

Lost-wax brass casting was developed by the Asante people in Ghana to make objects for gold transactions, such as weights and canisters. Like their forefathers,...

Batik Process: Astronomy

Adele Tetangco / Co-Founder of Garmentory

Osei-Duro and Garmentory go all the way back, and we couldn't imagine a happier e-comm love affair. With Garmentory, Adele and co-founder Sunil Gowda pioneered...

Spring / Summer 2017 Editorial

Explore our latest collection, shot on location in Vancouver, Canada.

Process: Batik

Many of Osei-Duro's hand dyed prints are made using the batik technique. Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing that originated from Indonesia, and came...

Travelogue: Ethiopia

Osei-Duro co-founder Maryanne Mathias travels to Ethiopia to check out the culture, textiles, history, and of course the coffee. Here she shares her photos from the trip, commenting "I have...

Process: Dyeing with Onion Skin

We are passionate about moving towards using as many botanical dyes as we can, so for SS17 we've developed a pale pink color using onion...

Early Spring 2017

The quickening of spring Love is come again Like wheat that springeth green Photos: Lieke Romeijn Model: Anoek

Allison Schulnik / Artist

Allison Schulnik's phantasmagorical characters drip their way across paintings, film, sculpture, even cupcakes if you are lucky enough to make it to her Halloween party....

Francis Kokoroko / Photographer

Francis Kokoroko is a collaborator, good friend, and photographer based in Accra. Francis was behind the camera at our House Party shoot, and many of...

Essence Harden / Scholar and Artist

Essence Harden is a Multimedia Artist, Writer, and PhD Student in Los Angeles, CA

Anna Sew Hoy / Artist

We catch up with longtime Osei-Duro friend and LA artist Anna Sew Hoy at home to find out about her work, her ethics, and her...

Black Lives Matter

We created a line of batiked and screen printed T shirts, procured from the thrift market in Accra.

Nataal x Osei-Duro: Interview Editorial

In Twi, Osei-Duro means noble medicine. It’s an apt name for a label dedicated to promoting ethical fashion and preserving traditional handcrafted textiles...

Summer Editorial

A photoshoot celebrating the end of summer.

Autumn / Winter 2016

AW16 continues to showcase the unique hand batiked fabrics Osei-Duro is known for, while integrating soft alpaca sweaters from Peru and vivid ikat dyed...

Maame Adjei / Actor & Producer

We met up with actor/producer Maame Adjei to talk about her work, the future, and why she wears our clothes.

Osei-Duro x Cantamanto

In this reimagined Accra, our heroes navigate a dystopian chaos - familiar yet unfamiliar...

Kpando Potters Cooperative

Kpando is a small town located in Ghana’s Volta Region, five hours away from Accra. Nestled in the lush forest just a short distance from...

Steloo / Fashion DJ

DJ Steloo (Evans Kissi) is well known in Accra’s music and creative scene. He is also a hit on the street, and easy to recognize...

SS16 Accessories

An empty stadium in Accra reminds us of all the unknown athletes out there. For those of us who didn't make it to Rio...

House Party

Earlier this summer a group of friends met at our house in Accra, to celebrate our fall launch. Babies, outfits, music, even an engagement announcement!...

Andrea Bergart / Artist

Andrea’s paintings reference diverse visual traditions including African textiles, urban fashion and geometric abstraction. Inspired by the NYC subway....

Osei-Duro X lululemon lab

We teamed up with active lifestyle brand lululemon's flagship store/design incubation space, the lab, to create a collaborative capsule...

Chale Wote Festival

Organizers at ACCRA[dot]ALT started the Chale Wote Street Art Festival as an alternative platform that brings art, music, dance and performance out of the galleries...

Myisha Battle / Sex Coach

I love helping individuals and couples find ways to be more themselves and be more fulfilled with their sexual relationships. While I work...

Stockist / Nzuri Atelier, South Africa

NZURI Atelier is Osei-Duro's first distributor on the continent! We are thrilled to be represented in Africa, and couldn't be happier that it's with old...

Spring / Summer 2016

SS16 continues to showcase the unique hand batiked Ghanaian fabrics Osei-Duro is known for, integrating breezy block printed rayon and yarn dyed cotton stripes...