KORLEKIE x BLACK GIRL KNIT CLUB We’re excited to announce our latest social collaboration with Black Girl Knit Club (BGKC). Black Girl Knit Club is a knitwear collective based in East London started by friends Sicgmone & Vea. BGKC was created in January 2019 after Sicgmone & Vea realised that there wasn’t a safe space…
DetailsNUBUKE FOUNDATION x KORLEKIE In pioneering our heritage, KORLEKIE worked with the Nubuke Foundation, Ghana in cultivating the visual art and culture of Ghana through traditional heritage textile techniques such as kente weaving. Kente is one of the traditional fabrics of Ghana, weaved by artisans who have specially schooled in the art of the heritage…
DetailsOur collaboration with Aha Bolivia in recreating our digitised UV mapping designs via digital communication was a challenging and interesting experience that produced stunning results.
DetailsIn our passion for craft and exploration of diverse techniques, we decided it’d be interesting to re-create the idea of cross-stitch into an actual piece of wearable clothing.
DetailsThroughout the last couple of weeks, our creative director Beatrice Newman has been collaborating with several amazing Instagram platforms, talking about her brand Korlekie and everything that is close to her heart: traditional crafts and heritage techniques, her inspiration sources, the story behind starting Korlekie and examples of her actual creation process. The Instagram accounts…
DetailsI’m sure that every one of us has enjoyed the pleasures of shopping, whether it is physically at the stores or ordering your parcels online. For many people, it is considered as a way of treating themselves, just spending their free time or even done regularly as a hobby. People do not shop for need…
DetailsWe all know that making decisions before or during your university course can be very challenging for a young person. The opportunities might be overwhelming and the fear of making the wrong choice just sits in the back of your head. As a strong supporter and participator in fashion education, we at KORLEKIE contacted three…
DetailsThe Fashion industry has been longing for a change for years now, but the global pandemic of Covid-19 has finally given it the last push. The well-known format of runway shows arranged during fashion weeks is a resource-consuming and expensive tradition to keep. Even though runways display the creation of designers best, the 20-minute shows…
DetailsThis year, the world has encountered something many of us have never seen before, a global pandemic which turned pretty much everything upside down. Cities and countries have been locked down and our everyday lives adapted into spending all of our time and working from home. Even though many countries have started to exit lockdowns…
DetailsThis is the second part of KORLEKIE celebrating the beautiful and talented black designers who are either born or located in London. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate all that talent and beauty! Rene Macdonald Tanzanian-born designer and former stylist Rene Macdonald moved to London already at a young age, continuing her life travelling…
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