Fly reader, Sadia Bruce writes about a budding clothing line, Piso Collection.
Piso Collection is a line of dresses designed and manufactured in Liberia, West Africa. The brand, inspired by the beauty of Grand Cape Mount County and Lake Piso, was launched by Liberian sisters Chara and Phyllis Itoka. They wanted to create a collection of versatile, "pretty but not dainty" silhouettes that compliment the beauty of their locally sourced bold prints.
The seeds for Piso Collection were planted about ten years ago, when Chara was a student living in Paris. She soon developed a reputation for rocking wax prints with Pumas, which she had collected during a three-month residency in Dakar.
"Over the years," Chara says, "people would stop me in Liberia, Boston, Detroit, and Accra to ask me who designed my clothes. I would say I did and then we would set up time to spend many hours shopping with them and styling outfits in African prints."
Fast forward a decade and Piso Collection now has a new workspace in Monrovia and a team of the country's most skilled seamstresses and is perfectly poised for easy entrée into the closets of fly girls worldwide.
--Words by Sadia Bruce
