• Fashion: Womenswear

    Nana Poku Asare-Boadu

  • Nana Poku Asare-Boadu (Photograph by © Ian Gillet)
    Nana Poku Asare-Boadu (Photograph by © Ian Gillet)
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  • Nana Poku Asare-Boadu’s Statement

    Colette’s study of sexual behaviour in her book The Pure of the Impure, has provided the inspiration behind my collection. Through various portraits she depicts an erotic world of cross-dressing fuelled by the power of desire, where female subjects would regularly dress in a masculine manner in order to pick up other women.

    This contrast of masculine and feminine is very appealing and is summed up in a line by Grace Jones:

    “Walking in the rain; feeling like a woman; looking like a man.”

  • Nana Poku Asare-Boadu’s CV

    07957 790121
    n.poku-asare-boadu@alumni.rca.ac.uk

    Work Experience

    Wardrobe Manager, Rufus Wainwright, London, 2007; Atilier Assistant, Viktor & Rolf, Amsterdam, 2006; Design Studio Assistant, Emma Cook, London, 2005; Design Studio Assistant, Michiko Koshino, London, 2004

    Awards

    First Prize, Womenswear, Umbro International Award, 2006

    Sponsors

    Limonta Spa, Riri, Sophie Hallette Lace