{"id":15200,"date":"2014-07-02T04:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-african-designed-knicker-bikini-faso\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:11:27","slug":"new-african-designed-knicker-bikini-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-african-designed-knicker-bikini-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"New African Designed Knicker ‘Bikini Faso’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Atelier Augusti is the brainchild of sisters Julie and Claudie Ramirez who first visited Burkina Faso six years ago after their mother married a Burkinabe man.}}<\/p>\n

“To us it was not a choice between manufacturing in the Far East or Africa,” says 27-year-old Claudie Ramirez.<\/p>\n

“It was always going to be Africa, though obviously the Far East would have been cheaper,” she says.<\/p>\n

”The quality of workmanship is high in Burkina Faso and we can easily travel there from France and oversee production.<\/p>\n

“We want to know the people who work for us.<\/p>\n

The sisters want to work with 100% cotton – which they buy from the large Comatex textile factory in neighbouring Mali, she says.<\/p>\n

“However, we have to send the elastic and the ink for the screen printing from France. The quality we require simply is not available in Burkina Faso.”<\/p>\n

The lingerie is on sale on the internet and at four outlets in France, including one in the capital, Paris.<\/p>\n

Selling Augusti products in Burkina Faso would be ”complicated”, says Claudie Ramirez, because the price – a minimum of 18 euros (\u00a314; $25) – is far higher than most Burkinabe women are used to paying.<\/p>\n

Ms Tiema partly agrees: “In the market you can pick up Chinese underwear for next to nothing.<\/p>\n

“But it is synthetic and horrible on the skin.”<\/p>\n

The veteran dressmaker explains that there are second-hand items – known as “France au revoir”‘ – which are sometimes made of cotton.<\/p>\n

“But I do not want to wear someone else’s pants,” she says, adding that design is also an issue.<\/p>\n

“I am sure there would be a market for beautifully made, high-quality cotton lingerie which is cut to our African shapes.<\/p>\n

“We just need to get our act together.”<\/p>\n

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