{"id":8808,"date":"2013-12-04T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2013-12-04T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T09:00:42","slug":"fashion-focus-ghana-house-of-eccentric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/fashion-focus-ghana-house-of-eccentric\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Focus Ghana &#124; House of Eccentric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-1989761480\" class=\"afric-before-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-Banner\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad>\r\n<\/div><p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For over a decade, <b>Patrick Poku Asante<\/b> has been producing dynamic, trend-setting garments of quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His brand, <b>House of Eccentric Clothing<\/b> lives in the minds of fashionistas not only in Ghana, but across the African continent.<\/p><div id=\"afric-2705137516\" class=\"afric-inbody afric-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><!-- \/21718337565\/AFW300 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0' style='width: 300px; height: 250px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8809\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8809     lazyload\" alt=\"House of Eccentric\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe2.jpg\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>House of Eccentric<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Patrick Asante<\/strong>\u00a0is regarded as one of the very best and innovative African fashion designers.\u00a0 He is extremely talented and has developed effective skills overtime.\u00a0 As a teenager, <b>Patrick<\/b>\u00a0 modeled until he decided to embark on his passion driven journey as a designer of clothes.\u00a0 While studying at <b>Takoradi Polytechnic<\/b>, Patrick got his first job working for the Miss Ghana pageantry; he served as a secretary. He also gained experience at <b>Akosombo Textiles Limited<\/b> (ATL).\u00a0 <b>Patrick<\/b> later won the <b>Takoradi Best Designer Award<\/b> organized by <b>Homestyle<\/b> (a local event management group).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8810\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe4.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8810   lazyload\" alt=\"House of Eccentric\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe4.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>House of Eccentric<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Since then, Patrick has been on top of his game and went on to win <b>Best Fashion Designer 2012 <\/b>at the <b>Ghana Fashion Awards.\u00a0 <\/b>Because he excelled in the <b>FIMA <\/b><b>2008<\/b> fashion show and applied himself throughout extensive education, Patrick acquired an international job opportunity with French designer <b>Dean Doucet<\/b> in Nice, France.\u00a0 He trained with him for some months and later returned to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8811\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe1.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8811  lazyload\" alt=\"hoe1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe1.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>House of Eccentric<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2028 \u00a0 \u00a0In 2003, <b>Patrick Poku Asante<\/b> established one of Africa&#8217;s finest fashion homes, the <b>House of Eccentric Clothing<\/b> .The <b>House of Eccentric Clothing<\/b> brand has clothed contestants of elite beauty pageantries, television show hosts, and many other prominent personalities across Africa. \u00a0<b>House of Eccentric Clothing<\/b> has been displayed in <b>VLISCO <\/b>fashion festivals and events (in Ghana), <b>Dakar Fashion Festival<\/b> (Dakar, Senegal), The <b>Oil City Fashion festival<\/b> (Takoradi, Ghana), <b>AFRIC COLLECTION<\/b> (Cameroon), <b>Lagos Fashion &amp; DesignWeek<\/b> (Lagos, Nigeria), <b>Fima<\/b> <b>Fashion Show <\/b>(Alphadi, Niger), <b>Corporate Time Out<\/b> (Ghana), <b>Extraordinaire Runway de Links<\/b>, and several other significant fashion events across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8812\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe3.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8812   lazyload\" alt=\"House of Eccentric\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2013\/12\/hoe3.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>House of Eccentric<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0His most recent collection is sophisticated, very eccentric, and cream dominated with golden compliments. The collection consists of ready-to-wear, corporate wear, dresses, and gowns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>House of Eccentric Collection<\/b>\u2019s new collection tells the untold golden African fashion story while casting some trends for 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Jessica Konney<\/p>\n<p>Fashion Ambassador (Ghana)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"afric-1751173348\" class=\"afric-after-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-bottom\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 For over a decade, Patrick Poku Asante has been producing dynamic, trend-setting garments of quality.\u00a0 His brand, House of Eccentric Clothing lives in the minds of fashionistas not only in Ghana, but across the African continent. &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Patrick Asante\u00a0is regarded as one of the very best and innovative African&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[88,76,89,128,90,2030,2161,103,83,1430,201,1431,298,2162,2163,2164,2165,2166,2167,2168,2169,2170,2171,1400,2172,2173,219,2174,2175,2176,827,2051,911,47,2177,234,2178,2179,2180,2181,2182,2183,776],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-adiree","tag-adiree-pr","tag-africa","tag-africa-fashion","tag-africa-fashion-week","tag-africa-fashion-weekly","tag-african-design","tag-african-designer","tag-african-fashion","tag-african-influences","tag-african-inspired","tag-african-inspired-fashion","tag-african-print","tag-afwny-com","tag-akosombo-textiles-limited","tag-alphadi","tag-best-designer-award","tag-corporate-time-out","tag-dakar-fashion-festival","tag-dean-doucet","tag-extraordinaire-runway-de-links","tag-fashion-events","tag-fashion-festivals","tag-fashionista","tag-fashionistas","tag-fima-fashion-show","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-fashion-awards","tag-house-of-eccentric","tag-house-of-eccentric-clothing","tag-lagos","tag-lagos-fashion-design-week","tag-luxury-african-fashion","tag-models","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-oil-city-fashion-festival","tag-passion","tag-patrick-poku-asante","tag-takoradi","tag-takoradi-best-designer-award","tag-takoradi-polytechnic","tag-vlisco"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}