POOJA JESHANG

Grey Sheep

Location

dar es salaam / tanzania

University

birmingham city university

Graduation year

2011

Pooja Jeshang is an upcoming talented fashion designer who graduated from Birmingham City University in England last year. She is currently a freelance designer who has used her time effectively to launch her own label "Pooja Jeshang" which specialises in ready to wear. Pooja takes her inspiration from a range of sources in her everyday life whilst also being inspired by culture and society across the globe. She currently has two collections in her portfolio, the first Military Power which she worked on in her final year at university and the second Jambo Afrika which she launched with her label Saffron at Swahili Fashion Week 2011. Her third collection is a mini resort collection, which is called "...with love, Delilah."

Latest Collection

...with love, Delilah. | Resort 2013 | Pooja Jeshang

If the discovery of chameleon inspired colors, electric pinks, bottle green and orange soda positioned Pooja Jeshang outside her comfort zone, her new resort range found her returning to what she does best. Crafting silhouettes, simple but yet seductive, as defined by the name "Delilah". Although Pooja's best innovation would have been her materials, following the trend using 100% cotton. For example this season she showed pieces in tie and dye batik, giving the fabric a mottled, streaked look. Pooja really upped the quality in this mini collection, some of which the silhouettes that will be garnered in the upcoming SS 2013 collection yet to be named. The bottle green jumpsuit with the floral wax print, a true nigerian ankara fabric was inspired by the 80's wide legged bottoms, alongside leaving it strapless to enhance the femininity of a woman, leaving it tempting and seductive enough - one of the winners in the collection, it radiated glamour, sophistication, and totally in the comfort zone just what you would want to lounge out in.

Previous collections

Jambo Afrika