[dropcap1]I[/dropcap1]ntroducing ONEOFEACH. This 100% women owned accessory brand was founded by mother and daughter design team, Tamburai and Pauline Chirume who are based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Pauline is a self taught fashion designer and contemporary visual artist with over 30 years experience. Before relocating from Zimbabwe she owned a large CMT which produced clothing for major retail stores. Tamburai comes from a fashion retail and styling background, having worked with prominent fashion magazines such as Elle Bulgaria, and studied Consumer Science in Retail Fashion Management as well as some International Relations and media. She then joined the banking world of Wealth and Investments with the FNB Group which has helped her conceptualize the ONEOFEACH dream to become a business reality.
[pullquote]Each and every piece is unique with its own identity and story[/pullquote]
This mother and daughter journey has lead them to create a strong brand which embraces the love of ethnic prints, leather and all natural fibres, creating luxury fashion accessories which are pieces of art.
The concept of ONEOFEACH promotes a spirit of creative authenticity, where modern fibres meet ethnic traditional prints from all over Africa, drawing inspiration from colour, shapes, size, art and meaning from each fabric that is sourced.
ONEOFEACH believes that the customer is an individual, drawn to an item for a reason, hence they believe in making only one item in each style per size. Each and every piece by ONEOFEACH has its’ story which resonates with its’ future or current purchaser.
Their vision is to create a beautiful high end quality product created in Africa for the international market. At Native Interiors one of our business goals when starting this venture was to support business women in Africa and we strongly believe this courageous due are well on their way to completing this vision of ONEOFEACH becoming a premium luxury African fashion brand made in Africa, by Africans for the elite world wide market available to purchase internationally.
Their mission is to change the world’s view on African products through constantly creating innovative products which can compete with international renowned handbag and leather companies.
“We believe we can be Africa’s agent of change through the use of fashion which appeals to a broader world wide market,” say the ONEOFEACH founders and so do we!
Prices range between AUD$125 – AUD$155, browse the collection here.
