In the past two years, L.A.-based fashion designer Claude Kameni has seen her 8-year-old West African-textile-inspired line, Lavie by CK, embraced by Hollywood.
In 2018, Tracee Ellis Ross wore a custom Kameni dress to host the American Music Awards after the star's stylist Karla Welch discovered the label via Instagram.
The label outfitted Viola Davis in a shoot for the July issue of Vanity Fair, while Amanda Seales wore a custom dress when she hosted the BET Awards this June.
Says Seales’ stylist Bryon Javar of hisclient’s BET look, “I was really inspired by the movie Coming to America when Vanessa Bell Calloway was going to be marrying Prince Akeem.
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