Royal Fulani Living
Vendor
Royal Fulani Living™ is an African and American home decor and fashion brand inspired by the beauty of Senegalese culture.
Each piece is carefully curated and/or exclusively designed with exquisite, original West African print.
Every product is designed and made by Senegalese and/or sourced globally.
We take basic everyday products and creatively combined them with the distinct beauty of West Africa.
Mina Dia
Mina Dia-Stevens is a 25 year veteran, fashion educator; a life-long creative; and a design entrepreneur.
Her professional and personal background is extensive. She has spent years sharing the knowledge that she has acquired as a fashion designer and entrepreneur with the next generation of young creatives.
Her ambition is always to nurture, educate, and assist in forging the path and passion of the next great design professionals.
Not only has she shared her talent with well-known design firms in the fashion industry; ranging from her beginnings as an intern at Tommy Hilfiger in New York to working and as a trend consultant in London, England; she also has years of experience as a design educator in secondary and post-secondary learning environments.
Her journey as an educator involved researching, establishing and implementing an extensive curriculum for 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th-grade creatives in the area of fashion and textile design.
In addition to nurturing student creativity; she developed a curricular component geared towards cultivating her students as young professionals; this includes reinforcing the importance of creative accountability, professional etiquette and social expectations within their class/work environments.
She was a faculty member for twelve years in the fashion department; at Moore College of Art and Design. She provided instruction to 3rd year and 2nd year design students in the area of pattern making, construction, illustration, and concept design in the categories of menswear, swimwear, womenswear and childrenswear.
Her professional experience includes various roles in the fashion industry; ranging from designing junior activewear apparel, shoe design, trend consulting abroad and currently expanding her family’s West African textile business into the brand; Royal Fulani Living.
Also as a design entrepreneur, she fully understands the delicate balance between nurturing an independent artistic spirit and having a business mind.
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