User:Rberchie/Tetteh Plahar

Tetteh Plahar (born December 7, 1975) is a Ghanaian fashion designer based in UK.

Early life
Tetteh Plahar was born to Zinabu Plahar (née, Nelson) and Lieutenant Aldolf Plahar of the Ghana Armed Forces. He grew up in various areas in Accra as his parents moved between Asylum Down, North Ridge and finally North Kaneshie.

Education
Tetteh Plahar attended North Ridge Lyceum from 1980–1987 and Achimota School from 1987-1994 where he had his GCE O-Level and GCEA-Level respectively.He obtained a Bachelor of Arts with honors in fashion and textile designing at the University of Bedfordshire in the U.K.

Career
He won the Ebony award for talent discovery 1998 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Tetteh Plahar comes from a  family  tree  of  creative  people. His mother the late Zinabu  Nelson  later  Mrs Plahar  was  an international  beautician  in  the  60’s and 70’s. His maternal ancestors the Tabom people of Otublohum are known to have brought Western fashion to the then Gold Coast now Ghana from Brazil by establishing the first professional fashion house called The 1st Scissors house in 1856. Their first contract was to make uniforms for the army and security agencies at the time. This is the same family tree that bore renowned Ghanaian tailor Dan Morton who happens to be his grand uncle. At age 12, Tetteh Plahar  made  his  first  outfit  from  his  mother’s  singer hand machine without any formal  training. At  19, he was contracted by Ghana’s biggest fabric producing company at the time - G.T.P to hold sales promotional  fashion  shows using their fabrics.Around this time the love for the African print was somewhat limited to the older generation of Ghanaians especially women. The younger generation was more hooked on to the western style,Tetteh Plahar created an ultra modern outfits with the African prints thus attracting the interest of the younger generation His last fashion show in Ghana was in 1999 at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel dubbed ‘ADINKRA’. It was attended by the then 1st lady of Ghana Nana Konadu, ministers of  state, members  of  the  diplomatic  corp sand  traditional  leaders. Tetteh has in his repertoire making clothes for the former president of Suriname Jules Wijdenbosch, former president of Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana, political  big  wigs in Ghana like  Mr. Paul Victor Obeng, Capt. Nkrabea Effah Darteh, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah,Van Vicker and many more.

Personal life
Tetteh Plahar has two kids Zinabu Plahar and  Sheldon  Adi Plahar. His elder brother Adi Plahar is also into events management.

Fashion Fairs and Expo
On July 15th 2015, Tetteh in collaboration with The Melting Pot held the Milton Keynes Cultural Expo ‘15 at the Milton Keynes Shopping Mall.