Award-winning Ghanaian-American designer and Unfashion visionary, Mimi Plange launched her own lifestyle brand in 2010, after a decade working in the New York fashion industry. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and holds a degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. Plange’s designs have been sold in luxury boutiques in the United States, Kuwait and Qatar, and she has shown her collections in New York, Sweden, South Africa, Cote d’Ivore, Paris, Nigeria and Senegal. Her many partnerships include collaborations with famed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, the iconic furniture brand Roche Bobois, Instagram, and most recently LeBron James and Nike Basketball.
Mimi Plange is a brand that share stories of old African traditions and interprets them into American Sportswear classics.
We design lifestyle products that merge a sporty edge with elegance for free spirits.
We are Unfashion
Our garments have been displayed in museums around the world including the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, SCAD’s Moot Gallery in Hong Kong,
Spelman Museum in Atlanta and The Minneapolis Museum of Art. Mimi Plange has recently become part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Our designs have been worn by former First Lady Michelle Obama, Vanessa Hudgens, Serena Williams, Teri Hatcher, Rihanna, Gabrielle Union-Wade, Paris Hilton, Viola Davis, Regina King, Janelle Monae and Awkafina.
Mimi Plange has been featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, Vogue.com, Ebony Magazine, Vogue UK, Vogue India, WWD, Harpers Bazar, Marie Claire, Essence, Glamour Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Nylon Magazine.