Our Designers

Ella Mesma is a dance artist, circus artist, and founder of Maya Gandaia Ltd. She runs two interconnected ventures: Ella Mesma Company, a diaspora dance and circus company, and Maya Gandaia, her sustainable fashion brand. Her coaching programmes, the Goddxx Path and the Sacred Bowl, are built around chakra philosophy, embodiment, somatic practice, and Goddxx-like potential

Fashion runs deep in the Jafajul family: they all have an eye for beauty, and there was always a sewing machine at home for getting creative and upcycling. Many of the sisters have given me advice along the way, and at the heart of it all is Rooksanah Jooma, who studied fashion and never stopped creating. Their mother, Mariam Jafajul, was also a seamstress, and that thread of creativity has woven through generations. Rooksanah is no longer with us, but her name lives on in the rose collection, and perhaps it is no coincidence that her name means bright, shining, dawn, because that is the light she left behind.

Birce Avcu is a Milan-based fashion designer and biomaterial innovator. She earned a fully government-funded dual master’s degree from Domus Academy and Regent’s University London, and her work was showcased at Fashion Graduate Italia. Alongside developing her next-generation biomaterials, she provides consultancy to brands and collaborates with designers on sustainability and innovation focused projects across Europe.

Aleksandra came in to the world sensitive and aware, to engage and play in a serious way. She studied art in school, experiencing the beauty and restriction, moving through it amongst a lot of internal friction. Experiential learning, felt a more natural way, taking her back to her grandparents sewing workshop, where she had often stayed. Observing, absorbing, later carrying forward that ability, through intuitive knowing and her DNA. Her path veered off into practising various dance forms deeply rooted, rhythmic, different to what’s considered the norm. This led to an ongoing practice of massage and self-care, tuning deeper into her own healing, while assisting others to be more self aware. Yoga, qi gong, and other meditative practices, wove their way through, creativity being the axis. Her more recent return to embroidery art and sewing, feels divinely timed, perfect, and organically flowing.