Filbert Mutua describes his style as classy, elegant and comfortable. His work manifests this.
The self-trained Kenyan, Nairobi based, fashion designer is the head designer at Fintan Fashion. He attributes his skills to intensive YouTube tutorials, apprenticeship with other designers as well as the five tailors that are currently his employees.
How he got to the relatively accomplished status? Started as a mitumba seller while in campus in 2012, opened his first bank account from this with 500 bob, then with a perfect sounding saving habit whilst sourcing fabric and having them tailored, the line picked in 2015. But before this, he was his unavoidably fashionable parents’ stylist. Cute huh.
Filbert’s focus is on clients’ comfortability and glamorous feel. “My main agenda is to always make my clients feel like they are wearing their own skin as an outfit.” To achieve this level of the so-craved client satisfaction, the designer has had to work overtime. He says he does not settle for less, and neither does he let his clients.
About critics, Filbert says he takes the opinions as either a challenge or a lesson, or dismisses them if they do not help grow his brand in any way.
The designer works with a couple of Kenyan celebrities, some of whom have been Huddah Monroe, Jackie Vike (Awinja), Pascal Tokodi, Avril among others. He insists though, that he does not focus on any specific group of people. “I like to include everyone in having a feel of Fintan Fashion.”
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