Every week CNN International's African Voices highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. This week we profile Ethiopian bridal and evening-wear designer Amsale Aberra, whose elegant dresses are a hit with celebrities.
(CNN, Jan 05, 2011) -- For many brides to be, picking out the perfect wedding dress is the best part of planning their wedding, but for Amsale Aberra it was also a eureka moment.
Unable to find a simple, understated gown for her wedding in 1985, Ethiopian-born Aberra decided to take things literally into her own hands and design her own dress.
Working from her loft in New York she went on to launch her own bridal gown design business, called Amsale, expanding into couture evening wear that has been worn by the likes of Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek and Kim Basinger.
Aberra says her understated, sophisticated designs came about in response to the the lack of options available when she was shopping for her own wedding dress.
"In the mid 80s, at that time, if you really knew the bridal fashion, it was lots of beading and mermaid -- just completely overdone," she said. More reading on CNN
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