Entertainment is a whole box, normally people focus on either Music or Movies and the fashion/Arts industry is left out of the excitement, but the latter play a vital role in our entertainment industry.
Entertainmentinghana.com with its aim to give its readers an all round circle of excitement, caught up with the CEO of ORONGA CLOTHLING Oheneba Nana Yaw Boamah, to find out all hidden secrets.
You are welcome to entertainment in Ghana.com “ON THE CHAIR”, my name is Nana Yaw Wiredu.
EG: Take us through your journey of gaining the desire for fashion.
OHB: I love art and everything that got to do with Media and Fashion. My artistic knowledge took me into the working field during my secondary school education where I learnt a lot through my everyday activities.
EG: This means everything passionate is worth trying, so what did you do after senior school and what did you study at SHS.
OHB: I did General Arts but started with Business, with such dangerous switch; I managed to pass and enrolled at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology where I studied Industrial Arts and majored in Fashion and Textiles.
EG: Can you take us through University life and its changes on your dream?
OHB: Life at the University made me realize there’s more to life than what I thought. I got myself into a campus base radio station “Focus FM”. I entered into radio just to have an additional knowledge aside my Fashion and Textile course.
I also got into Film and Documentary production like ‘Infotech TV’ on TV3, and a documentary project for PPAG on AIDS.
EG: “ORONGA” is one different name, what inspired that name.
OHB: I had the aim to change all wrong fashion ideas to right, hence the name ORONGA, the initial name was RONGARYTZ. [A coinage of two words, wrong and right].
EG: Has Mr. Oheneba worked on some projects?
OHB: Yes, the first was at KNUST College of Art exhibition, the second was a fashion show dubbed NIGHT OF FASHION at the end of my degree course at the university.
EG: What about the celebrities, have you worked with any yet?
OHB: I got myself on board a movie project and took care of costume, continuity and artistic directing. On set were Nadia Buari, Kofi Adjorlo, Vivian Achor and Yvonne Okoro.
The production opened doors, leading me to the Chelsea Icon Michael Essien to have my label as part of his designer collections.
EG: That’s some level of achievement, but apart from sewing and designing cloths what else is ORONGA CLOTHLINE into?
OHB: I work with Texstyles Ghana Ltd. [GTP] as well, there I design most of the fabrics that we have around now, and I worked on TAYSEC’s fabric, Face of Tertiary, the fabric for the late Hawa Yakubu.
I also designed the Ghana at 50 fabric, I have designed majority of fabrics for Hotel staff, Churches, schools etc.
EG: This is awesome, any dreams and future plans Mr. Oheneba.
OHB: I dream to become a world acclaim designer, so every single day it urges me to research to broaden my scope on designing, textiles and fashion. I look to see Oheneba Rongarytz [now O-RONGA CLOTHING] label first like the Coco Channel’s or the 1920 young Italian man named Guccio Gucci.
EG: What do you do to relax and any inspirer?
OHB: I don’t really have a structured relaxation time and an inspirer, it happens mostly at a particular time.
EG: Thank you for talking to entertainmentinGhana.com.
OHB: You are welcome.
Story: Nana Yaw Wiredu
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