Fashion Designer Kwaku Bediako

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What if your next designer outfit was once part of someone else’s wardrobe? Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury with sustainability at its heart. In this edition of In the Studio, we step inside his world as he transforms second-hand garments into bold, high-fashion pieces, worn by global stars such as Stevie Wonder and Ian Wright. Kwaku is one of the Ghana's top designers, known for his fashion house Chocolate. It was when he noticed how much material was being thrown away, that he decided to create a new brand, Cacao, where discarded fabrics can become the material for garments worn to red carpet events across the world. Kwaku has been commissioned by music producer GuiltyBeatz to make him a bespoke outfit ahead of this year's Grammy awards in LA and Daniel Dadzie goes with Kwaku as he hunts for second hand clothes at Kantamanto, Accra's largest thrift market. It's a place where the past fashions of Europe meet their future in Africa. Then to the design studio where the ideas take shape, inspired by the waves along Accra's coastline. Producer: Andrea Kidd