Meet Recho Omondi, The Designer Who Merges The Playful With The Political | The FADER
An emerging fashion powerhouse speaks on the importance of staying true to who you are and why New York Fashion Week is a dead format.
Recho Omondi is true Americana. Born in Tulsa and of Kenyan parents, she moved around the Midwest during her youth before finishing high school in Champaign, Illinois. Her summers were spent traveling to Kenya — dividing time between Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. But it was six years ago, around 2010, when she decided to settle in New York City. After completing her B.A. at Savannah College of Art and Design, the 30-year-old soon put her degree to work: cutting her teeth at fashion houses like Suno and Calvin Klein, and later launching her own line with Omondi.
Graceful and lithe, Recho is almost always in a sweatshirt and jeans, adorned with nothing more than a gleam in her eye and a smile as cheeky as the expressions sewn onto her clothing. In mid-February, The FADER sat down with her to discuss Omondi’s singular and collective black aesthetic and how it encompasses every aspect of the line’s identity.
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