February is Black History Month and it is dedicated to celebrating people and events in Black history. Today, we are celebrating a woman who is dedicated to supporting black-owned fashion businesses.

The elegant and beautiful Diana Opoti is this week’s Woman Crush Wednesday. She is the founder of Diana Opoti PR, which is Kenya’s first fashion consultancy and PR firm. Diana Opoti PR promotes Kenyan fashion brands and other companies looking to enter the Kenyan market.

Kenyan-owned fashion lines are fast emerging and companies such as Diana Opoti PR are steering Kenya towards a time when we will no longer need to outsource a single piece of clothing from overseas because there is quality and variety right here.

 New African listed Diana Opoti as one of 100 of Africa’s most influential people of the year in 2014
 Diana first begun her fashion career as a producer for the fashion show Designing Africa
 She studied PR and Communications at Daystar University
 It takes hard work and sacrifice to be successful and Diana Opoti also believes that passion fuels business
 The best part of Diana Opoti’s job is hearing a clients’ satisfaction

(Images – Instagram: @dianaopoti)

What are you currently worrying about?