Ivory Coast,  Côte d’Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa is one of Africa’s countries with fastest budding fashion industry with over hundreds of fashion creatives sprouting out in its capital, Abidjan.

Abidjan, a city with fastest-emerging fashion creatives poised to continue to their rise to the top of the industry and make an impact with a blend of creativity, commerciality and plain hard work within the French fashion scene and in Africa

The fashion industry in Côte d’Ivoire has been underrated for a while now due to the language barrier with other anglophone fashion capitals in Africa But this list of creatives will change your perception about the fashion scene in Abidjan

LOZA MALEOMBHO

( FOUNDER CEO AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR ( LOZA LOZA MALEOMBHO )

IVAN PATRICK KITAN

( CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF BTENDANCE )

KADER DIABY

( VISUAL ARTIST AND DESIGNER )

NACKISSA ISABELLE 

(CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF FASHION LABEL NACKISSA IN ABIDJAN )

DADI

( PHOTOGRAPHER )

MATHILDE ME WE

( CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF PRET-A- PORTE WOMENSWEAR BRAND ME WE PARIS )

ELIE KUAME

( INTERNATIONAL  HAUTE COUTURE FASHION DESIGNER  AS SEEN IN VOGUE )

FANTA KONE 

(FASHION AND BEAUTY BLOGGER AND ALSO CO-FOUNDER OF FALL INJ MODE )

ARISTIDE LOUA

(HE IS THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF ETHICAL FASHION BRAND KENTE GENTLEMEN IN ABIDJAN )

TONY SANT ANNA

( FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN ABIDJAN )

LAFALAISE DION

( CREATIVE WRITER AND EDITOR AT ELLE COTE D’ VOIRE )

Philippe Loret

( Founder / Creative director at @lateampls | Photographer | Film Director )

AZIZ DA   ( CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF CONCEPT STORE DOZO.ABIDJAN)

BEEBEE BROWN

( FASHION AND FOOD BLOGGER )

Mouhamed Ndiaye

( One of IvoryCoast Favourite Male Models )