Nakeʻu Awai. Hawaiʻi's First Native Hawaiian Fashion Designer.
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Nakeʻu Awai Featured on PBS Hawaiʻi’s Home is Here About The Muʻumuʻu Movement
Nakeʻu Awai Designs was recently featured alongside Marion Jones, Founder of The Muʻumuʻu Library, on PBS Hawaiʻi’s Home is Here’s episode about Hawaiian fashion both past and present, and the women who are making a mark here and abroad preserving, promoting, and pushing homegrown Hawaiʻi fashion forward.
Nakeʻu Awai Celebrates 84th Birthday with Hawaiʻi Fashion Designers
Nakeʻu Awai was joined by nearly 40 of Hawaiʻi’s fashion designers, family, friends, and other distinguished guests at an intimate gathering at Queen Emma Summer Palace to celebrate his 84th birthday.
Nakeʻu Awai Designs’ Merrie Monarch Collection Released for Spring
Nakeʻu Awai Designs newly released Spring Collection brings the designer back to his roots featuring beloved Hawaiʻi botanical prints on traditional and modern cuts in an array of colors.
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”).
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