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= Omer Asim = Omer Asim, a Sudanese designer, was born in Khartoum in 1978 (age 43) and currently lives and works in London. Asim learned his trade through a series of internships, beginning with Savile Row's Maurice Sedwell and ended with Vivienne Westwood. Asim studied creative pattern cutting at Central Saint Martins before freelancing in the industry. In 2011, he started his own label.

Early life and education
Omer Asim was born in Khartoum, the fifth of six siblings, with minimal exposure to fashion and no desire to create. He traveled to the United Kingdom without his family when he was 17 years old to attend the Bartlett School of Architecture. Asim decided to pursue a doctorate degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science after graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture. He began training as a psychoanalyst after a brief stint with the United Nations Development Programme. He then started working on a PhD project about fashion's visual consumption, which included visual anthropology, psychoanalytic studies, and social psychology. He spent a year looking for a PhD advisor who could help him with all three disciplines before recognizing he preferred to make garments rather than write about them.

He freelanced in the wardrobe department of the Harry Potter films after his internships with tailor Maurice Sedwell and Vivienne Westwood, before launching his own collection.

Career
His clothing line, which consists of limited edition seasonal designs and operates between London and Sudan, was founded ten years ago. It's been published everywhere from The New York Times and Vogue Italia to Milan Fashion Week's CNMI Fashion Hub Market. Androgynous and futuristic yet defined by distinctly, 'primitive','undesigned' characteristics. In 2020, the Fashion Trust Arabia Prize, which supports and mentors Middle Eastern designers, assessed by a virtual panel led by Tania Fares, the founder of the Fashion Trust Arabia Prize. Omer was awarded the womenswear prize, which came with a hefty stipend and a mentorship program.

Spring Summer fashion season 2015
The beauty of Omer Asim's designs comes from his sartorial skills, creative cutting, and simple color palettes of black, white, navy blue, brown, and grey, which allow each garment's design to show through. While creating, the color is the last thing to be decided. Shape and cut are the first things that come to mind for him. He used the color green for SS' 15 (the Spring Summer fashion season in 2015). This was not a planned decision, but rather an unexpected occurrence that occurred during the design process. His cuts are harsh and unexpected, but they still manage to pack a punch. He creates a particular style by layering fabric and texture, which he designs and sews with his own hands. It's also worth noting that he doesn't stitch or cut his material with high-tech machinery. This craft-obsessed man performs it himself or asks his dependable and experienced intern to do it by hand.

Sketching or theme inspirations aren't part of his creative process. To un-design a strong silent aesthetic, the focus is on substance and craft. To generate a sense of regressive future, modern shapes, cuts, and textures are combined with primal materials.

Spring Summer fashion season 2017
During London Fashion Week, between September 16 and 20, 2016, Omer Asim's SS17 presentation (SS17 stands for the Spring Summer fashion season in the year 2017) served as a refreshing mental palate cleanser. Entitled Reversed Sensory, his models wore modest tunics, waistcoats, and shorts with artistic strokes on their backs, while standing on black charcoal pedestals that corroded their fingers and feet. Some of the components were hung from the body, while others were secured in place by strong breastplates. Maya Antoun, a jewelry designer and long-time partner, provided copper mouth stoppers, rods, and ear balls to the raw and minimalist environment.

Autumn Winter season 2017
With his Pre AW17 women's and AW17 menswear designs (AW17 stands for the Autumn Winter season in 2017), the designer has continued to explore these speculations. He was able to focus on textured fabrications and finishes, such as pleats and raw edges, as well as the development of long, slender shapes with modest volumes, drapes, and corsets, by sticking to his distinctive palette of black, white, and neutrals. His abstract, pure forms are chiseled and unkempt at the same time, oblivious to trends in favor of intuitive structures.

Awards
Omer was awarded the Fashion Trust Arabia Prize in 2020. The FTA Prize is the first of its type in the Arab world, inspired by the success of the BFC Fashion Trust in the United Kingdom, which has had a significant impact in helping some of the world's most outstanding designers. FTA has evolved from its original objective of providing financial support, training, and mentorship to budding designers in the MENA region to become much more: a platform of opportunity for every great Arab designer to thrive and earn international recognition. The board picks five winning designers each year, each receiving a $200,000 award, a one-year relationship with Matchesfashion.com, and access to an exclusive mentorship program.

Under the patronage and presence of FTA's honorary chair, HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, and co-chairs, HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani and Tania Fares, the first edition of the FTA Prize was successfully introduced in 2018.