I'm Amenawon — founder and designer behind Mhenase Touch. Bespoke contemporary fashion, drawn from West African craft and made in a Manchester atelier. From wedding parties to everyday capsule pieces.
Mhenase — "thank you" in Asante Twi. The brand started as a few pieces made for friends, became a referral list, and is now a small atelier I run by myself out of South Manchester.
The work draws on West African textile traditions — block prints, embroidery, hand-finished detail — translated into pieces that hold their own at a UK wedding or in a Manchester boardroom. Most of what I make is bespoke. A handful of pieces a year go out as small ready-to-wear capsules.
Everything is cut, sewn and finished by me. No outsourced production, no white-label patterns rebadged.
A piece designed for you from a blank page. Three fittings over eight to twelve weeks. Best for weddings, christenings, milestone birthdays and the big-day pieces in a wedding party.
Made-to-measure from a pattern I already cut and love. Shorter turnaround, lower price, same finishing — a good first commission.
A small run of pieces released two or three times a year. Sold first to the studio mailing list, then to a small number of independent stockists.
Amenawon · The atelier
Textile · Detail
Patterns library
Cutting & toiling
Recent · OccasionwearAmenawon took a single sketch and a fabric swatch and turned it into the piece I'll wear at every wedding for the next decade. I trust nobody else with anything that matters now.
A first consultation is free and around an hour — in the Manchester studio or over Zoom. I'll come back to every enquiry personally within two working days.