Kunjina Tesfaye

You may have seen her create quite a commotion around town with her edgy modern contemporary designs and her influential activism. In this edition, we will be talking about Kunjina Tesfaye, founder of Kunjina.

Kunjina Tesfaye was born in Bahirdar in 1995, where she stayed until she was two years old and moved to Addis Ababa with her family. Since she was little she had a polarized difference with her sister. Her sister would always go out and play while she would keep to herself and draw. The young aspiring designer was inclined to fashion at a very early age. She would go through her mom’s closet styling her mom, and on Sundays, she would put together fashion shows to showcase to her family. Since her mom’s clothes were large on her she would pin the clothes and manipulate them into fitting her, and so she learned the basics of cloth-making at a pretty young age.