{"id":35409,"date":"2017-07-12T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kinyoozi-mattew-rugamba-celebrating-the\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:23:08","slug":"kinyoozi-mattew-rugamba-celebrating-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kinyoozi-mattew-rugamba-celebrating-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinyoozi: Mattew Rugamba celebrating the barbershop culture with his collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur Mattew Rugamba decided to share his childhood story which inspired him to his latest creation, a collection of clothes celebrating the rich, vibrant, uninhibited African Barbershop culture. }} <\/p>\n

Known for his Lumumba-like haircut, he shares his portion of life: <\/p>\n

\u201cI have always been drawn to black barbershop culture. One of my favorite shows as a child was \u201cDesmond\u2019s\u201d, a British sitcom of a West-Indian Barber in London. My first memories of listening to hip hop and reggae were in the barbershop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fresh Prince inspired my first high top fade, Iverson had me trying to get cornrows and the Ronaldo 2002 World Cup haircut got me in trouble in school, I guess hair has always been a form of expression of my identity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cKinyoozi \u201d translates as \u201ca Barber\u201d in the English language and the collection which was showcased at the Collective Fashion Week finale is composed of different attires with a classy and decent look married with an African-inspired touch of design which recalls the barber\u2019s environment such as Amasunzu embroidery on contrary lapels and pinned scissors prints on shirt collars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe barbershop is also the first time I really saw entrepreneurship first hand. My mum opened a barbershop almost 20 years ago. I was so excited about it. I was sketching the signs and coming up with different names. My mum saw how much effort I put into it and she decided to name it after me, \u201cTAYO\u2019s BARBER SHOP\u201d says Mr. Rugamba.<\/p>\n

House of Tayo was created by Mattew Rugamba out of Desire to find unique way through which to showcase African sophistication, style and flavor through contemporary, locally-made clothing accessories.<\/p>\n

Here are some photographs of the KINYOOZI collection:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"Fashion<\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur Mattew Rugamba decided to share his childhood story which inspired him to his latest creation, a collection of clothes celebrating the rich, vibrant, uninhibited African Barbershop culture. }} Known for his Lumumba-like haircut, he shares his portion of life: \u201cI have always been drawn to black barbershop culture. One of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[75],"byline":[206],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","tag-homenews","byline-ivan-nyagatare"],"bylines":[{"id":206,"name":"Ivan Nyagatare","slug":"ivan-nyagatare","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":16}],"contributors":[{"id":206,"name":"Ivan Nyagatare","slug":"ivan-nyagatare","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":16}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35409"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35409"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}