Setting trends a stitch at a time

This self-taught designer is determined to set fashion trends instead of following them.

Even as a novice her drive was to design fashions that created beauty around her. “I did not want to be employed by anybody else, I did not want limitations in my career. Being the creative director of my talent has been very rewarding as opposed to working for someone,” she says, her face lighting up with a smile of satisfaction. Tumwesigye’s day starts at 5.30am when she wakes up and goes for a jog. She gets ready to work by 9am. “If there is anything I need to get in town I go there and make sure I am back at my workshop by lunch time to avoid the rush hour, and then leave around 6pm.”

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