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Best Day/Night: Day
Noise Level: Low
Attire: Casual
Bike Parking: Yes
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KikoRomeo – After completing fashion design studies in Rome, followed by years working as a designer in Barcelona, Scottish born Ann McCreath took a three-month break doing aid work in Kenya.

Finding it fascinating, she stayed on for 3 years, before deciding to go back to her profession and do trade instead of aid. So in 1996 With a desire to help create jobs in rural areas and make unique, high quality products for retail Ann launched her own fashion house under the name “KikoRomeo”, which means “Adam’s apple” in Kiswahili..

Hoping Kenyans would take pride in African-inspired contemporary fashion, and promote their economy through buying locally made fashion, she set about making ethically sound products with inputs from community artisans and women’s groups, which she retailed through her own shop.

Since then KikoRomeo has continued to create ready-made garments, cut to international fashion trends, using African made fabrics, often with handcrafted details.

KikoRomeo mentor many young Kenyan designers and takes people for internship from all over the world. This can be in design, but also in administration & marketing. In 2008 Ann founded the Festival of African Fashion & Arts (FAFA), together with other arts and media professionals. Kenyan and Pan-African designers came together for the “Fashion for Peace” event in the Nairobi National Park.