Vanessa Nsona

Vanessa Nsona
Born
Vanessa Nsona

Malawi
OccupationFashion Designer

Vanessa Nsona is a Malawian business entrepreneur and fashion designer. She is the creator of Dorovee [1], which is Malawi's first eco-friendly fashion accessory company. She was selected as a Mandela Washington Fellow under the Young African Leadership Initiative in Washington D.C.[2][3].

As an established designer in Malawi, she mentors and trains fashion designers both in and out of the country.[4] She has co-hosted workshops in Malawi. In Zimbabwe, she held a workshop on 'Building a Sustainable Fashion Brand' together with Zedlabel at the US embassy.[5][6][7]

Background

She holds a diploma in Business Management from University of Malawi. In 2014 Nsona was a Mandela Washington Fellow, for young African leaders, at Dartmouth College studying business [8]. She represented Malawi at the African Youth World Heritage forum in Cape Town, South Africa.[9][10]She is a member of Soroptmist International of Blantyre (SIB) which helps disadvantaged women and children. She also launched Project Luso, which creates and promotes Malawian fashion designs to help disadvantaged women and mentors talent in the fashion industry together with non-profit Samaritan Trust.[3][11]

Career

Nsona launched the Dorovee fashion accessory brand in 2012 [12] which includes sandals, necklaces and other jewellery using Malawian fabric and materials.[13] Her designs have appeared in Malawi fashion shows, including Malawi Fashion Week 2014 and at the Malawi at 50 celebrations in Washington DC.[14] More recently, Nsona collaborated with Matamba Film Labs for Women in Zimbabwe to develop a stop motion film about the life of a young African girl [15].

Media appearances

  • Interviewee, "Executing a Business Idea", Player FM, Premier Multimedia Consultants, episode 003 & 004, 2016
  • Judge, Zedlabel Fashion Challenge, fashion feature TV show, Zimbabwe, 2015
  • Interviewee, "Interview with Vanessa Nsona", United Nations Foundation, 2014[16]

References

  1. ↑ "DOROVEE.COM - DOROVEE.COM". dorovee.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  2. ↑ "Vanessa Nsona". Mandela Washington Fellowship. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  3. 1 2 Yvonnie Sundu (2014-07-04). "Vanessa Nsona ready to take on the world with her designs | | The Nation Online". Mwnation.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  4. ↑ "US Embassy and YALI organize a youth fair". Capital Radio Malawi. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  5. ↑ Zimbo Jam Network (2015-10-15). "Vannesa Nsona Archives". Zimbo Jam. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  6. ↑ "Sac isotherme repas". Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "Shop Zimbabwean fashion online". Zedlabel.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  8. ↑ "Vanessa Nsona". Mandela Washington Fellowship. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  9. ↑ Kwesi Aane Koomson. "My Cherished Memories: World Heritage Youth Forum in retrospect" (PDF). Furnacejournal.files.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  10. ↑ "furnace Journal Issue 4 (2016)". Issuu.com. 2016-09-03. Archived from the original on 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  11. ↑ Albert Sharra (2014-01-10). "Designer partners Samaritan Trust | | The Nation Online". Mwnation.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  12. ↑ Co, Kuwala (2014-12-16). "Dorovee: Eco-friendly brand launches crowdfund | Kuwala". Kuwala.co. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  13. ↑ "Vanessa Nsona | The John Sloan Dickey Center". Dickey.dartmouth.edu. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  14. ↑ "Entertainment – Malawi Nyasa Times – Malawi breaking news in Malawi". Nyasa63.rssing.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  15. ↑ Banda, Sam (2024-02-16). "Malawi, Zimbabwe creatives in Stop Motion film project". The Times Group. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  16. ↑ "YALI Fellow: Vanessa Nsona". YouTube. 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
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