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How Abrima Erwiah Went From Working at a SoHo Boutique to Helping Shift the Conversation Around African Luxury Fashion
She spent almost a decade at Bottega Veneta before co-founding Studio 189 with Rosario Dawson.
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Photo: Joshua Jordan/Courtesy of Abrima Erwiah
In our long-running series How I m Making It, we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
In 2012, Eve Ensler s V-Day launched a campaign to bring attention to sexual violence against women, called One Billion Rising. Having worked with the organization before, Abrima Erwiah and longtime friend, actor Rosario Dawson, thought the fashion industry could and should step up, too. So, the following year, they launched Studio 189, a social enterprise and lifestyle brand that sells African and African-inspired clothing and supports the artisans and communities that make them, based out of New York and Accra.