Oakland fashion designer gets boost from Steph Curry

OAKLAND — It can be simple the Golden State Warriors provide their A-video game to the courtroom, but gamers usually also flex their style muscle groups when walking into the locker area right before games.  

Oakland garments designer Akintunde “Tunde” Ahmad recently located out just one of his creations was worn by Stephen Curry right before an NBA Finals recreation at Chase Centre.  

Tunde researched overseas in Ghana while a junior at Yale in 2016 though studying journalism and documentary movie.

“My qualifications is not in vogue at all. This is a thing I stumbled into,” claimed Tunde from his studio in Oakland.  

Ade Dehye is his brand name. The outfits are produced with materials straight from West Africa. Every piece is hand-woven, hand-dyed, and even cut and sewn in West Africa.  

Tunde suggests his items are rooted in royalty, but just lately learned his ranks are rising. Most basketball players convert their sport-day arrivals into a little runway as they stroll by way of the tunnel headed to the locker room. 

After Sport 2 of the NBA Finals, Tunde was shocked to see Curry sporting a royal blue overcoat he built.  

“I in fact identified out like every person else, scrolling on social media and it popped up. And I’m like double just take, triple take, quadruple get! I was like, ‘That is that!'” reported Tunde.  

He suggests fashion and lifestyle from West Africa have been underappreciated for too prolonged. He is happy it can be having eyes from persons across the region and world.  

“On the best of phases, you have merchandise that are 100% % produced in West Africa and so West African productions, patterns and weaving and all the things that have been disregarded all these years,”  

Considering that the begin of the NBA Finals, Curry has been sporting clothing from independent black designers, using his system to get them some name recognition.  

Since then, Tunde says other celebrity stylists and athletes have arrived at out to him inquiring about achievable collaborations.