At the launch of her BM Label a few weeks ago at the Accra Polo Club, she got patrons astounded with her level of inventiveness. An ideal blend of enchanting colours and a rather unanticipated choice of fabrics, her collection eventually becomes the perfect and only option for the ever-daring woman of today’s competitive world.It remained a spectacle when models took to the runway to showcase her collection which ranged from glamorous flowing bridal gowns to other classy evening wears. Brigitte Merki-Ibrahim isn’t a regular designer rather a perfectionist obsessed with getting things done appropriately exclusive as vindicated by her designs.
A loving wife and a mother of three, it isn’t difficult to trace the source of Brigitte’s special ingenuity. Her mum was a famous Ghanaian designer in her prime and her dad a Swiss expatriate who appreciated arts and continually invested his fortune into paintings, crafts, furniture and traditional musical elements.
Born in the nation’s capital, she had her basic education at the R.M.S Swiss School before moving to the land of her ancestors for high school. While at Staefa Dorfschule, she had an apprenticeship in Salesmanship as required by the in Swiss curriculum. She moved to Zurich to continue with an apprenticeship in Business Management.
With Ghana serving as her first home, she returned to be with her family as she prepared for further studies. After securing admission in an institution and traveling to the United States to commence her studies, the inevitable had occurred forcing Brigitte to abandon that dream.
She had taken seed and so had to stay and start a family with her husband, Jamil Ibrahim, a real estate developer and member of the national polo team. After the birth of her first baby, she enrolled at the University of Ghana where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology.
By then she had started creating her designs, aside those she assisted her mum to work on. Brigitte signed up for a course at the Vogue Style School of Fashion and Design to harness her talent and obtain the requisite rudiments of her chosen trade on the advice of her mum. On the back of her passion and dedication, she was crowned most outstanding student and another award for creativity at her graduating ceremony.
While heavily pregnant with her last baby months after Fashion school, she entered into the Redds African Fashion competition in 2008. With an award winning design that scored her the needed graduating marks, Brigitte appeared the strongest contender for the ultimate. All things
being unequal and on an equal playing field, she was adjudged the runner up for the R.A.F.D.A 08.
Inspired by the elements of nature (fire, wind, water), the BM collection speaks to all women who prefer to step out dazzling, alluring, elegant and conspicuously beautiful. Brigitte Merki’s clothes are tailored to individual measurements and a person’s body type, age and skin tone informs the style. According to the creative brain who emphases on the finishing of her works, her MB label has come to stay!
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