Loza Maléombho

Loza Maléombho is an Ivorian American fashion designer. She was raised between Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa) and Silver Spring, Maryland (US). At age 13 she found interest in fashion while designing for her mother her aunts and her own school uniforms. In 2006, she graduated with a BFA in animation at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. In order to gain further experience in fashion, she then moved to New York City, where she interned for designers Jill Stuart, Yigal Azrouël and Cynthia Rowley. In 2009, she launched her self-titled label.

Loza Maléombho
Born1985 (1985)[1]

In February 2015, Solange Knowles featured her in the Black Designer Spotlight series with ten other independent artists. The singer Beyoncé (sister of Solange Knowles) wears one of her creations in the clip for her title Formation (on the album Lemonade).[2][3][4]

She handles traditional but also original shapes, and plays with colors, reflecting her cosmopolitan journey, and in particular of this Brazil where she was born, from the New York of these beginnings, and West Africa.[5][6]

References
  1. "Loza Maléombho - 7 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy".
  2. "Sur le visage qui apparaît dans le disque de la Lune", Le visage qui apparaît dans le disque de la lune, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 23–88, 2013, doi:10.4000/books.septentrion.5879, ISBN 9782757405796
  3. Turquier, Barbara (2011). "Images en ligne". Esprit. Octobre (10): 178. doi:10.3917/espri.1110.0178. ISSN 0014-0759.
  4. DUPLÀA, Emmanuel (February 27, 2019), "Les transformations d'établissement et la formation en ligne", Formation et apprentissage en ligne, Presses de l'Université du Québec, pp. 115–138, doi:10.2307/j.ctvggx3dp.15, S2CID 164873666, retrieved August 18, 2022
  5. "MoonMag | African Creatives & Lifestyle » Toute l'actualité de la créativité contemporaine mode et design africain #MADEINAFRICALoza Maléombho, présente " Alien Edits " | MoonMag | African Creatives & Lifestyle". mag.moon-look.com (in French). February 12, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  6. Aveline, Christophe (October 2015). "Je viens d'être opéré en ambulatoire et j'ai très mal la nuit même, que faire?". Le Praticien en Anesthésie Réanimation. 19 (5): 222–232. doi:10.1016/j.pratan.2015.07.005. ISSN 1279-7960.

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