“Kenya does not have a national dress code. We promise to have one by next year,” said Ummi Bashir, principal secretary in the state department for culture, arts and heritage, during the inaugural ...

Following this dispute, the government joined with the consumer goods company, Unilever Kenya, to set up a "National Dress Design Team". The team then launched a competition among Kenyan designers to ...

Unilever Kenya put its fashion foot forward and sponsored the Kenya national dress quest in April this year under their Sunlight brand. Close. Sign up for free AllAfrica Newsletters.

Kenya: On National Dresses. 1 October 2005. The Nation (Nairobi) opinion By Rhoda Orengo. Nairobi — Look around at a social gathering today be it a wedding, funeral or a party and count how many ...

Nairobi - Forty-one years since independence, Kenya has embarked on the search for its first ever national dress. "We want to bring Kenyans together by appreciating our culture," National Heritage ...

When Kenya will have national dress. During the 2023 Utamadumi Day Celebrations, Bashir announced that the government would unveil the national dress by October 2024.

Bashir was taken to task by MPs over the planned expenditure of Sh100 million for the design of a Kenyan national dress despite a Sh50 million having already been spent on a similar dress.

Is there a distinctive Kenyan "look"? Perhaps not yet. A country-wide competition held six years ago to come up with a Kenyan "national dress" failed to take off. But in Kenya's burgeoning fashion ...