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Joe Casely-Hayford
Joe Casely-Hayford
Joe Casely-Hayford quickly realized he wasn’t going to continue in the academic tradition
of his Ghanaian family. As a child, he was fascinated by the urban tribes of the 60s and
70s—by their aesthetic identities, their personalized composition of style. For this reason,
at the age of just fi fteen, he was creating garments out of the remnants of second-hand
clothes.
is taste for the mechanics of clothing and the composition of an outfi t came to fruition
in his intense tailoring training in London. Subsequent training in art history and studies
at Central Saint Martins rounded out his education. ...