Highlights from Nakeʻu Awai Designs’ 2023 Spring Collection Release at Merrie Monarch Festival
Highlights from Nakeʻu Awai Designs’ 2023 Spring Collection Release at Merrie Monarch Festival
Nakeʻu Awai Designs was in Hilo at The 60th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival Arts & Crafts Fair from April 12 to April 15 to release its 2023 Spring Collection, with five bold prints in five fresh colorways to celebrate the brand’s five decades of creating fashion for Hawaiʻi’s people.
April 20, 2023 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured on Hawai‘i News Now as Grandfather of Hawai‘i Fashion
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured on Hawai‘i News Now as Grandfather of Hawai‘i Fashion
Mahealani Richardson visited Nakeʻu in his Kalihi shop where she talked with him about her own history with the brand, the origins of some of his prints, and how 50 years later, the ‘grandfather of Hawaii fashion’s’ designs remain classic mainstays in the community. Also, enjoy a quick ‘catwalk’ of Mahealani in Nakeʻu Awai Designs’ popular romper. 
April 13, 2023 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Launches Gold Label Commemorating Its 50th Anniversary
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Launches Gold Label Commemorating Its 50th Anniversary
To commemorate its 50th Anniversary, Nakeʻu Awai Designs is excited to introduce Nakeʻu Awai Designs Gold Label. Gold Label pieces are designed in Hawaiʻi and produced in Los Angeles, California, bringing consumers additional styles that add to its signature Aloha Wear collection.
March 20, 2023 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured in Honolulu Magazine: Gorgeous Mu‘umu‘u Worn at Mu‘u at the Museum 2023
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.
January 10, 2023 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Starts Its 50th Year Anniversary with a Fashion Show at Mu‘u at the Museum
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.  
January 07, 2023 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Kicks Off Its 50th Year Anniversary Early With Aloha Collection Collaboration
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.

December 09, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs 2022 Fall and Winter Collection Debuts With Fashion Show and Mākeke
Nakeʻu Awai Designs 2022 Fall and Winter Collection Debuts With Fashion Show and Mākeke
Nakeʻu Awai Designs recently debuted its 2022 Fall and Winter Collection, Iconic Prints on Cotton, yesterday at the Nakeʻu Awai Designs Mākeke, a collection of Nake‘u’s favorite artisans and friends, and through its sold-out Fashion Show, both held at The Pacific Club in Honolulu.
November 21, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs 2022 Summer Collection Debuts at Native Hawaiian Convention and Bloomingdale’s Pop-up
Nakeʻu Awai Designs 2022 Summer Collection Debuts at Native Hawaiian Convention and Bloomingdale’s Pop-up
Nakeʻu Awai Designs recently debuted its 2022 Summer Collection, Archival Prints on Linen, at the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) 21st Annual Native Hawaiian Convention in July and at Bloomingdale’s Ala Moana Center’s Kamaʻāina Pop-up Event in September.
September 04, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured in Modern Luxury Hawaiʻi: Catch Up With the Iconic Hawaiian Print Master
Nakeʻu Awai Designs Featured in Modern Luxury Hawaiʻi: Catch Up With the Iconic Hawaiian Print Master
Nakeʻu Awai Designs is honored to be featured in the September/October 2022 issue of Modern Luxury Hawaiʻi, a bilingual, bi-monthly magazine dedicated to Hawaiʻi events, style, fine dining, and culture. 
September 01, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Featured on PBS Hawaiʻi’s Home is Here About The Muʻumuʻu Movement
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.
May 26, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Celebrates 84th Birthday with Hawaiʻi Fashion Designers
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.
April 22, 2022 — Keane Akao
Nakeʻu Awai Designs’ Merrie Monarch Collection Released for Spring
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.
April 04, 2022 — Keane Akao