Ozwald Boateng is a fashion designer. Born in Ghana in the late 1960s and brought up in north London. While studying computing at Southwark College, he was introduced to cutting and designing clothes by his girlfriend at the time. With the help of his mother, who was an excellent seamstress, he started selling his mother's designs to passers-by along Portobello Road. At twenty-three, disllusioned with a mundane job in IT, he had set himself up full-time in business. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ozwald Boateng. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozwald_Boateng
For two decades, Ozwald Boateng , 39, has been re-writing established perceptions of Savile Row - the home of British tailoring - and, with his more contemporary twist on the classical form, has unveiled a new dawn for the home of classic British tailorin www.london.gov.uk/lseb/about/members/boateng.jsp
