FROM DOCTOR TO DESIGNER

Ray Darten. A brand where the prints are loud, the makers are passionate artisans and the owner is a former medical doctor. Unique is definitely one way to describe this powerhouse company. While at medical school, Yetunde Olukoya decided to take up sewing lessons as a hobby. “I have always known how to sew from a young age, initially self-taught but I soon realised that there was still a lot to learn,” she explains. During her medical training, Yetunde kept up her passion, telling Simply Sewing: “I would take apart clothes and make new styles out of them, and I also made multiple outfits for myself, family, and friends with my mom’s sewing machine.”

Motherhood made Yetunde