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Last Friday, Clare Rahma Nabukenya crowned her Kushona Designs tailoring and fashion journey with her second annual Kushona Fashion Show.
Hosting guests at Kushona Designs showroom along Namirembe road, Old Kampala from 2pm to 7pm, Nabukenya, a former art teacher and professional tailor, could not hide how elated she was, given the career switch that many had discouraged her from making.
Expectedly, the gomesi, Kushona’s selling point, opened, dominated and closed the show with the changing dresses and Arabic wear for the men cleverly slotted in.
The beautiful models and their expertly designed gomesis with sequins, stones, feathers and peaches created an optic marvel that perhaps could only be matched when the gomesi transitioned from just being a school uniform for Gayaza High School to Uganda’s unofficial...