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Designers

Cloth with a point of view.

If you design — couture, ready-to-wear, bridal, menswear, textile, or adornment — the house wants to see the work, not a promise of the work.

Apply as a designer
A man in Ghana dressed as a king, in kente cloth and gold jewellery, seated before a yellow wall.

The disciplines

Bring the collection you would defend.

We are not sorting by trend. We are looking for a hand. One strong look can say more than a rail of almost.

  • A Calabar Carnival costume shaped like a peacock, its fan of feathers in green, blue, and gold.

    Couture

    Evening cloth, made to be seen once and remembered. Construction that holds up under a spotlight.

  • A Cape Minstrel in Cape Town in an orange and blue suit and a sequinned hat, holding a tambourine.

    Ready-to-wear

    Clothes a person could actually live in, cut with the same ambition as a showpiece.

  • Close view of folded African print cloth with a dense floral pattern.

    Textile

    Print, weave, dye, bead. The surface is the design. Show us the cloth before it becomes a garment.

  • A horseman at Ojude Oba in green and white striped aso-oke and a matching cap.

    Menswear

    Tailoring with a temperature. Suits, sets, and cloth that does not apologise for pattern.

  • A woman at the Osun Osogbo festival with braided agogo hair crowned with beads and gold.

    Adornment

    Headwear, jewellery, and the objects that finish a look. If it changes the silhouette, it belongs.

  • A rider at Ojude Oba in white and gold ceremonial dress and a gold headwrap, on a decorated horse.

    Bridal

    Ceremony, not costume. Gowns and ensembles for the day someone wants to be unmistakable.

Stacks of brightly patterned African fabrics laid out for sale.

If you are chosen

What the house actually offers.

  1. 01

    A critical eye

    A reading of the collection: what is working, what is decoration, what should lead.

  2. 02

    A model and a room

    Styling, fit, and time with someone who can wear the clothes as they were imagined.

  3. 03

    A place on the runway

    A presentation in front of an audience, not a folder that never leaves the table.

  4. 04

    Photographs

    Pictures of the work you can send onward, with your name attached to them.

Designers

Send the work. We will answer.

A name, a city, a discipline, and a way to see the clothes. That is enough to begin.

Apply as a designer
0905 112 3456 info@antdm.org