MEDI1TV Afrique : Premiers pas dans la lumière : Révélation d'un jeune talent de la mode - 29/12/2024
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00:12Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Mediantv.
00:17Today, we raise the curtain on a young talent promoting African fashion.
00:21With boldness and creativity, he makes his first steps in the demanding world of sewing,
00:27ready to leave his mark on this show.
00:30We will discover his journey, his inspirations and his ambition to shine in the light.
00:36Ousmane Bakary, better known as Hossleur Design,
00:41is with us on the set of Africa Chic.
00:45Welcome, Ousmane, and thank you for accepting our invitation.
00:48Thank you very much.
00:50Ousmane, before talking to you, we will first look at a report.
00:57This is the 7th edition of La Nuit du Pagne,
01:01a meeting that aims to enhance African culture through local fabrics.
01:06This year, La Nuit du Pagne has been furnished by several shows of African designers,
01:11with in a loop the contest of the best accessories,
01:14which has seen the participation of four African countries.
01:18It was last October. Let's watch.
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01:26Departure of the military regime, entirely feminine of West Africa,
01:30the Agogis, nicknamed the Amazons by Europeans.
01:33For its representation, the Benin woman, Abraha Agathe,
01:36has chosen as a painting the elite of the army of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
01:40This, through printed fabrics, panther fabrics,
01:43keeping an avant-garde side and a lexicon rendered by the archers,
01:47her young slender and agile daughter, who have marked the history of Benin.
01:51A passage that will have allowed the fashion designer to become the laureate
01:56of the contest of the best accessories at this 7th edition of La Nuit du Pagne.
02:01I went on fabrics characterizing the African wedding.
02:06I also thought of doing avant-garde works,
02:09so just-in-place works, in addition to multifunctional accessories.
02:15In Côte d'Ivoire, there are weddings that take place,
02:19and they are spectacularly found in different regions,
02:25and that's what I wanted to show tonight.
02:28At this 7th edition of La Nuit du Pagne, four countries were on the list.
02:32These are Côte d'Ivoire, class 2, Togo, class 3, and Cameroon, class 4.
02:38The theme of this contest is articulated around African bones.
02:42It is very important for us today to show our culture
02:46through festivals like mine, fashion shows.
02:51And since I am a fashion designer, I had to put forward accessories
02:55that were not very well-known during fashion shows.
02:59We talk about fashion designers, but accessories exist.
03:02You saw tonight, they are talented.
03:04And you need luchans like Abidjan Pagne, like La Nuit du Pagne,
03:08to show their skills.
03:11The representatives of Cameroon, Benin, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire
03:15transported the public to the celebration of African bones
03:19in their respective countries,
03:21in Abidjan, through a poetry of colors.
03:40This is a report signed by Maxwoubi Eferdinand Kwaku.
03:44Our guest is a young talent in African fashion.
03:48He came to Côte d'Ivoire in 2017,
03:50then returned to his home country, Benin, in 2020, if I am not mistaken.
03:56Then he came back in 2024, this time to get to know the Ivorian people.
04:02Ousmane, how is it going?
04:09I can say that it is not easy, but I am doing well.
04:16Thank God, it is from one client to another that I manage to find myself.
04:23For those who do not know you, can you briefly introduce yourself?
04:28I am Hossleur Design, in the civil state, baccalaureate, Ousmane.
04:35I am a fashion designer.
04:38I am a stylist, model, couturier.
04:41I am versatile.
04:43I make men, women, and children.
04:47A fashion designer who has had two goals,
04:51sometimes easy, sometimes a lot of work.
04:55What is your story?
04:57It was not easy at first,
05:01the beginning of learning about couture.
05:06It was not easy.
05:08With the support of my parents and my family, I got out of it.
05:13Did you have the support of your loved ones
05:19when you decided to get into fashion?
05:23Yes, the whole family agreed.
05:26Especially my mother.
05:28My father was really surprised.
05:30It is the work that I want to leave, that you want to take.
05:35That's where couture came from.
05:38I remind you that your father was also a couturier,
05:42so you just followed in your father's footsteps.
05:46It is true that we want to follow in our father's footsteps,
05:49but what motivated you to want to be a couturier and not a stylist?
05:55Because in couture, you manage to devote yourself,
06:02to show what you are capable of doing,
06:05to transform clothes.
06:08Because every time we left school,
06:10he gave us the buttons, the things to do.
06:14I also liked to reproduce, to try to do like him.
06:19Because he was my idol.
06:22So I tried to copy him.
06:24And that's where I fell in love with the job.
06:28On off, you told me that your mother was your first client.
06:34Explain this little story to us.
06:37When I started couture,
06:40I made little Barbie things, little models.
06:45When I saw a model, I tried to make a little bread.
06:49One day, I sent it home.
06:51She said, wow, my son, you learned it.
06:53So she gave me one of these breads.
06:56It was hard to recognize me.
06:58She gave me one of these breads.
07:00You have to do this for me.
07:02I know you can do it.
07:04So that's how it started.
07:06I did it wrong.
07:08I did the outfit wrong.
07:10But despite that, she always encouraged me.
07:12She paid for the bread, but I wasted it.
07:14But at some point,
07:16I didn't make the same mistakes.
07:19Because at some point,
07:21one day, she congratulated me.
07:23My son, you became a boss.
07:25You did it on purpose.
07:27Yes, I did it on purpose.
07:29I wasted the bread.
07:31Even when I did it for myself,
07:33I managed to do it better than for her.
07:35Because she's a woman in shape.
07:38She's a little chubby.
07:40So it was hard for me to adapt to her physique.
07:44To her morphology.
07:46And today, that's the case.
07:48You can do it easily.
07:50Very good.
07:52Osler followed a training course.
07:56It's true that it was already in the family.
07:58But did you take courses to improve yourself?
08:03Yes, I signed up with a teacher in Benin.
08:06Because in Benin,
08:08it's not a training course.
08:10They put you there and you stay there.
08:12They put you in a workshop and you stay there.
08:14You watch.
08:15If you know, that's it.
08:16If you don't know, that's it.
08:17It takes longer than you.
08:19So I signed up.
08:21I used to like to send food to my superiors.
08:27So they could show me.
08:29I didn't even do it for three months.
08:31Yes.
08:32I didn't even do it for three months.
08:34I started to get on the machine.
08:36They gave me the clothes I was making.
08:38So it was the cutting that made me a little tired.
08:44Otherwise, the sewing.
08:46I started in three months.
08:48I already mastered sewing.
08:50I sewed straight, with good finishing.
08:54I want to say,
08:55what is complicated in the learning of sewing?
08:59Which step is the most complicated?
09:01It's the cut.
09:03If I really want to describe, it's the cut.
09:07Because when the cut is failed,
09:10the sewing is failed.
09:12If you can't cut well,
09:15you can't,
09:16the seamstress can't do the magic.
09:19That's right.
09:20The seamstress can't do the magic.
09:22If the cut is already spoiled, it's already spoiled.
09:24You can't make up for it.
09:25No.
09:26Okay.
09:27So what challenge did you face
09:31when you started in the fashion industry?
09:35The challenge was learning.
09:39Because when I was 18 years old,
09:46when I started mastering sewing,
09:50we had to release some superiors.
09:54I said, I want to be released too.
09:58So that's the challenge I gave myself to the fullest,
10:02really to the fullest,
10:03to be able to be released in one year.
10:05So every time I saw...
10:08When you were released,
10:09you allowed these people to take their time,
10:11to settle in their own country.
10:13Yes.
10:14Because in Benin, when you come to register,
10:18really when you finish your training,
10:20when you master it,
10:21they give you a certificate of participation
10:23to make sure you master it.
10:26There are states that follow that too.
10:29Okay.
10:30So it's a certificate of training,
10:32a kind of certificate.
10:33Yes, yes.
10:34Very good.
10:35Was there a key moment,
10:36a meeting that marked your career?
10:41Yes, yes, yes.
10:42It was in 2017,
10:45when I came to Côte d'Ivoire.
10:48I hadn't even done...
10:51I want to say two weeks.
10:53I had work at OUASA,
10:55as a seamstress,
10:57a seamstress of evening dresses.
11:00That's what I did only at night.
11:03Well, it was that...
11:05Kérosène lived in the same apartment,
11:09in the building, actually,
11:11of Madame OUASA.
11:14So he had to go to a concert.
11:17So the costume he had to wear
11:21wasn't really to his liking.
11:24It looked like he had paid for it.
11:25So it was a bit big.
11:27So he came to see my superiors.
11:29My superiors said he couldn't do it.
11:31They don't make costumes.
11:33Me, out of curiosity,
11:34I agreed to do it.
11:36The little one was already leaving.
11:38His dancer was leaving.
11:39He was already leaving.
11:40I said, no, come, I can do it.
11:42So he took me to the old man.
11:44I took the measures, I did it.
11:45He was happy.
11:47I was earning 25,000, normally, per week.
11:50But one day...
11:51On each costume?
11:53No, not on each costume, per week.
11:55Okay, okay.
11:56So I did...
11:59When I finished doing the costume,
12:02he was so happy,
12:03he gave me 50,000.
12:04It was a party.
12:05So I earned...
12:07Two weeks.
12:08Two weeks of...
12:10Work.
12:11We only have one eye.
12:12That's it.
12:13So that's what really motivated me
12:15to want to be determined
12:17to be a stylist, actually.
12:19Okay.
12:20And since then,
12:21you've been doing collaborations,
12:22or how does it work?
12:24Yes, yes, yes.
12:25Well, it's after my departure from Benin
12:28that we lost contact.
12:31Okay.
12:32But recently,
12:33I'm going to try to get in touch with him again.
12:36Because security doesn't really let me in
12:40without his permission.
12:42Well, we hope that Khorozen will watch this show
12:45and that he will get in touch with his stylist,
12:48whom he did good to at the time.
12:50I even saw his wedding.
12:52I was really moved.
12:53The outfits were really beautiful.
12:54Magnificent.
12:55Wow.
12:56I said, it could be me.
12:58Why not?
12:59Why not?
13:00God wanted it that way.
13:01That's it.
13:02So how do you describe your style?
13:05The style of your creations, let's say.
13:08Well, I improvise.
13:10It's according to the material.
13:14The inspiration.
13:15Yes, the material,
13:16and then the accessories that are there,
13:19which give me the inspiration.
13:22Okay.
13:23And precisely,
13:24what kind of material do you work with?
13:27I adapt to everything.
13:29I adapt to everything,
13:30whether it's silk,
13:31milk,
13:32cotton,
13:33fabrics,
13:34Moroccan,
13:35everything.
13:36Linen,
13:37I adapt to everything.
13:38Does the traditional African fabric tell you something?
13:41Yes, it tells me a lot.
13:43I like African culture.
13:48I like to paint here.
13:50I also like to work with it.
13:52Okay.
13:53In the design of your outfits,
13:56do you do it alone?
13:58Are there collaborations,
14:00people who intervene in certain stages?
14:04Well, there are people who contact me
14:08when there are a little delicate outfits.
14:11They contact me to intervene in their work.
14:19Okay, very good.
14:20What we're going to do,
14:21we're going to take a little break this time
14:24to discover a stylist who does recycling.
14:29He gave a fashion show at the 17th edition of the Africa Fashion Show.
14:33We're going to watch his show and we'll be back.
17:45That was the Black Mode show.
17:48The great stylist, Abor Kidame Black Mode,
17:50with his beautiful collection,
17:53which made us dream at the 17th edition of the Africa Fashion Show.
17:57Finally, hello to the people of Burkina Faso, and I continue with Ousmane Bakary,
18:03Osler Design, for those who know him.
18:07So, Osler, are there creations that you dream of making one day?
18:14We saw Black Maude, who made a mixture of wax with jute fabrics.
18:19So, should we expect such creations one day from you?
18:23Yes, I have creations that I haven't even seen in fashion yet,
18:32that I'm trying to unveil.
18:37And it's not out yet?
18:38It's not out yet, no.
18:40And when will it be out? Do we have to prepare for a fashion show?
18:45I'm waiting for a big event to prove what I can do.
18:53Okay, and we can't wait to see what Osler can do.
18:57So, are there collaborations that make you dream,
19:02people you want to collaborate with?
19:06Yes, the first person I want to collaborate with is José.
19:13I'm with José from La Tour.
19:16In exchange, I make his outfits.
19:20But it's José that I'm aiming for.
19:23Very good. That's for the short term.
19:25Yes. No.
19:27To be his stylist.
19:29It's the artist I like.
19:31We hope that José will also watch our show
19:35and that he will react favorably to Osler's request.
19:40In 5 to 10 years, how will Osler see himself?
19:44Will he be a great stylist with all his collaborations?
19:49Yes, a great stylist.
19:52I'm not only aiming for the Ivory Coast.
19:58I'm aiming for all of West Africa.
20:01There's Benin, Nigeria, Senegal,
20:06that I think I'll settle in soon.
20:09As soon as I'm done with the Ivory Coast,
20:12I'll try to settle in other countries,
20:15all of West Africa.
20:17Benin and Nigeria have some similarities in their culture.
20:23Do you manage to integrate this culture into your creations?
20:29Yes, I went to Nigeria a year ago.
20:33I went to see how the fashion is in Nigeria.
20:41I discovered a lot of things that added to my knowledge.
20:48That you liked and that you intend to reproduce for your clients.
20:52Yes.
20:53Very good.
20:54What do you think of the competition,
20:57the opportunities for young stylists in Africa?
21:01I think that fashion in Africa is growing.
21:07I'm proud of my stylists colleagues who are in fashion.
21:14How can we follow Osler's creations today?
21:18Osler's workshops are on all platforms.
21:23I like Osler's workshops
21:26because I think I'll have several workshops
21:34to train new talents.
21:37People who want to improve themselves
21:40or people who want to train themselves in the fashion industry.
21:46Very young.
21:48We're already thinking about passing on what we do to the younger generation.
21:54Does Osler think about this too?
21:57Why not in the cinema, in accessories?
22:00Are these fields that...
22:04No, not at all.
22:05Not at all?
22:06It's the couture.
22:07You don't even want to dress actors and stylists for a film?
22:10Yes, it's possible.
22:12Because there's this series.
22:16An African series?
22:18An Ivorian series that I dressed up.
22:22The name...
22:25It will suit you.
22:27Tell us about the collaboration.
22:29What was it?
22:30It was the second season that I dressed up.
22:34I was contacted by Jennifer Bassa.
22:39She's the director of L'Obelia Queen.
22:44It's a mannequin agency.
22:46She contacted me.
22:49I covered the whole series.
22:54I didn't have any problems.
22:56Very good.
22:57If Osler had to dress a celebrity today,
23:01who would you choose and why?
23:07A celebrity would be Celine Dion.
23:10I aim very high.
23:12I don't aim low.
23:15Have you already left Africa?
23:17Not really.
23:19She didn't really know Africa.
23:23She didn't really...
23:25You think she doesn't know Africa well?
23:28She doesn't know the riches we have here?
23:30We don't even have the talent we have in Africa.
23:33When I see the fashion world today,
23:36what stylists create is crazy.
23:40I don't even know how they get inspired.
23:43It's really original.
23:47What inspires you?
23:49I can say...
23:52As I said, I improvise.
23:56I improvise because my inspiration comes from the material,
24:00from the accessories I have,
24:03from what I was asked to do.
24:07That's where the inspiration comes from.
24:10Very good.
24:11Have you already participated in some shows here and there?
24:14Yes, I participated in Brass Fashion Show,
24:17the fourth edition.
24:19I participated in KS Fashion Day.
24:23Those are the two events I participated in.
24:28What are you working on at the moment?
24:30We have one event, KS Fashion Day.
24:35We have evening outfits,
24:38mixed with knitted clothes,
24:40mixed with Faso D'Anfani.
24:43And then the pants.
24:45Very good.
24:46If you had to start all over again in your career,
24:50would you do something different?
24:54Or would you keep everything intact?
24:57I would start sewing by the way.
25:00By the way, how old are you?
25:02One year, two years?
25:03No, I would say five years.
25:05Instead of going to school.
25:08At school, it's a knowledge.
25:10We learn.
25:11We learn.
25:12It's a knowledge.
25:13But on every vacation,
25:16I prefer to settle in sewing.
25:20Instead of having fun,
25:22just to do nothing.
25:24So some regrets.
25:26Yes, some regrets.
25:27Why didn't I start all over again?
25:29Okay.
25:30We are practically at the end of this show.
25:32One last word.
25:34Well, I would really like to say to everyone,
25:40to people who think that fashion is not...
25:44It's a bit of an easy environment.
25:47People denigrate the fashion environment.
25:50I can say that fashion really allows
25:54certain people to show who they really are.
25:58It reveals the strength that is in them.
26:03That is in them.
26:04So we must stop minimizing fashion.
26:09Denigrate fashion.
26:11Leave the rest.
26:14And I add that we don't become fashion
26:16because we failed somewhere.
26:18Fashion is a full-time job.
26:20It's a passion.
26:21And we must have the love of the thing
26:23before we start.
26:25Very good.
26:26If you don't like it, don't start.
26:28Okay, that's very well understood.
26:30Hansler Design, thank you for being on our show.
26:34And let's say, very nice sequel.
26:36The pleasure is all mine.
26:38There you go.
26:39You got it.
26:40It's the end of this show.
26:41Thank you to everyone who followed us.
26:43Thank you to the team in Regis, Fares, Jean-Marc.
26:46We'll meet again next week for another issue.
26:49Until then, take care.
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