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Plus size designer : Bonolo Mataboge

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Just days back from show casing her current collection at the Mercedes Benz African Fashion Festival in Ghana, 20 year-old fashion designer Bonolo Mataboge is working on opening her first store on the 12th of June at 27 Boxes in Melville.

Mataboge is the founder of fashion label AfriBlossom.

There is no stopping this young vibrant young designer who owes her successes partly to her competitive nature.

Mataboge fashion collections targets plus sized cosmopolitan women.

I realised that can’t be sitting at home doing nothing, I had gone to school to start a business so why not start now

The decision to start her own business came after she dropped out of design school and had nothing going for her.

“I realised that can’t be sitting at home doing nothing, I had gone to school to start a business so why not start now,” says Mataboge.
The young designer started her design business at the age of 19 and launched her label in September 2014.

Mataboge says she finds inspiration from the world around her, the people and from geometry.

The theme for Youth Day 2015 is “Youth Moving South Africa Forward.”

Mataboge says the way she will be moving South Africa is by opening up the untapped market of plus size designing and by creating employment for other people
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Click below to watch full interview with Bonolo Mataboge:

– By Itumeleng Mashigo

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