About me

Tia Oguri is creative always looking to expand her creative skills and collaborations. Recently started a fashion line specializing in traditional Japanese kimono, Uber Dandy Kimono.

QuestionsProjectsExperienceTeam

• Any stylists and photographers planning a bridal shoot? Sustainable Oxford based designer looking to collab on editorials and test shoots
• FOUND! Any photographers that would like to do an outdoor fashion TFP editorial collab on June 27?
• Any hairstylists up for a TF collab on the 9th of May?

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Projects

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  Perfume promoDirected @the_andym Producer @millie_ans DoP @sukimokdp 1st AC @edwardgrant Gaffer @stkristof_behind_the_scene Stylist @tia_oguri Assistant Stylist @maiiiii0518 MUA @nilly_vanilli Models @ultra_siedem @miareinaent Editor @tommarsh411 Color by @qualitycontroltv Colorist @richard_vaux
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  NYONI by Uber Dandy KimonoNyoni is the second collection to be designed by Uber Dandy Kimono and has brought a futuristic take on yukata while once again using African wax prints. This collection has been designed for the Spring of 2020 in addition to the focus on the concept of being creatively free. Futhermore, to increase emphasis on the thread of freedom, the collective is titled Nyoni which means bird in several Bantu languages. Here, we are shown how UDK wishes to be free creatively at the same time as the applica
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  NKECHI by Uber Dandy KimonoNkechi brings baroque to ankara wax prints.
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  AMAZWE by Uber Dandy KimonoEntitled Amazwe, this is the Summer 2020 collection of Afrofuturistic yukata – the first collection designed by Uber Dandy Kimono. It combines different elements from multiple countries which is also the basis of the design studio. The owner, Tia Oguri, is a South African living in the UK who wears traditional Japanese kitsuke as well as wears Samakaka – an Angola print fabric. The Wafrica yukata collection uses printed fabrics designed by the House Fabrosanz. For UDK, these are both very versa
• Like a rosePublished in @dreamingless _______________________________________ Creative Director: @tia_oguri Photographer: @shotbybinzy MUA: @agnesnowacka.mua Model: @comanwaring ________________________________
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  Weekend TLCOpium Magazine

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Projects credited in

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  EditorialVolition Magazine Jan2019 photographed by James Alexander-Lyon Stylist Tia Oguri
• Kimono RococoFashion and fine art personal project
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  Washed Out Editorialfor Volant Magazine Jan 2019 shot by James Alexander-Lyon Stylist Tia Oguri

Work history

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Business ManagerUber Dandy Kimono
Aug 2011Oxford, United KingdomFull Time

Skills

• Editorial Fashion
• Creating Websites
• Creating Moodboards
• Casting
• Wardrobe
• Creative Styling
• Concept Development
• Creative Art Direction
• Fashion Direction