Nakeʻu Awai. Hawaiʻi's First Native Hawaiian Fashion Designer.
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Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured in Honolulu Magazine: Gorgeous Mu‘umu‘u Worn at Mu‘u at the Museum 2023
Nakeʻu Awai Designs is honored to be featured in Honolulu Magazine’s coverage of the recent Mu‘u at the Museum event held January 7, 2023, at the Queen Emma Summer Palace. Honolulu Magazine began as Paradise of the Pacific, a magazine commissioned under King David Kalākaua to promote local business and tourism in the continental United States.
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Starts Its 50th Year Anniversary with a Fashion Show at Mu‘u at the Museum
To start its historical 50th year off strong, and to honor Queen Emma’s 187th birthday, Nakeʻu Awai Designs joined the Daughters of Hawaiʻi in celebrating Muʻumuʻu Month with its 2nd Annual Muʻu at the Museum by putting on a Fashion Show on January 7, 2023.
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Kicks Off Its 50th Year Anniversary Early With Aloha Collection Collaboration
Nakeʻu Awai Designs is turning 50 in 2023.
To kick off its historic Golden Anniversary year, the brand has collaborated with Aloha Collection, a company founded by two Native Hawaiian women, to create the 50th Anniversary Collaboration Aloha Collection Day Tripper.
About Nakeʻu Awai
Often touted as the Grandfather of Hawaiʻi fashion, Nakeʻu was the first Hawaiian designer to locally create prints using native and indigenous flora as inspiration (what’s come to be known as “Hawaiian print”).
