Bobbin Case international runway show — models in sisal sack garments

Portfolio

Collections & Runway — Sanaa ya Mavazi

The Work

Every piece in the Bobbin Case portfolio begins with a discarded material — a sisal sack from a Ugandan market, a scrap of recycled fabric, a length of rope. What follows is a process of creative murder and rebirth.

Bobbin Case runway show — adult and child models wearing matching sisal sack ensembles with metal stud details, international fashion week
Portrait of male model in structured sisal sack jacket with oversized collar and silver stud hardware — menswear runway
Female model wearing sleeveless sisal sack vest with column of metal grommets down the centre — womenswear runway
Full length shot of female model in raw-hemmed draped sisal sack dress walking the runway — womenswear collection
Side profile detail shot of metal stud and sisal sack wrapped collar on male runway model
Male model in sisal and rope outfit with cord bindings wrapping arms and legs, East Africa fashion show
Side profile of model wearing sisal sack jacket with hand-painted African art panel and large sisal sack headwrap — editorial Uganda
Full length editorial shot of female model in hand-painted sisal sack dress featuring social commentary artwork — vaccine syringes motif — in a Ugandan abandoned building

Editorial

Fashion as social critique

Beyond the runway, Bobbin Case uses fashion as a language of protest, memory, and African identity. Each painted piece carries a message — stitched into every fibre of reclaimed material.

Bobbin Case editorial — model in hand-painted sisal dress with vaccine syringe artwork in an abandoned Ugandan building
Bobbin Case editorial — side profile with painted African art panel and sisal headwrap, Uganda
Bobbin Case stage collection — model in printed sisal kaftan robe with sisal hood under dramatic stage lighting
Mukasa Najib in his studio with a mannequin wearing a draped sisal sack wrap dress and hand-painted sisal bag

Kwetu Kwanza

Fashion on the frontline

These images are not from a studio. They are from Kampala's streets, its rubbish dumps, its communities — the places that shaped Bobbin Case's language of dress. Gunia on a landfill site is not a provocation. It is a statement: beauty is not separate from the places we have been taught to look away from.

Bobbin Case Kwetu Kwanza — models wearing draped Gunia fabric garments standing on a Kampala landfill site against a pale sky, bold editorial fashion
Bobbin Case editorial — models in Gunia fabric standing on a Kampala rubbish dump, with a model walking before a community crowd in the street
Bobbin Case exhibition — recycled and upcycled fabric garments displayed on mannequins in an exhibition space, showing the range of Bobbin Case's sustainable material work
Kigali Fashion Week 2026

Wearable Wounds — Kigali 2026

Bobbin Case on the international stage at Kigali Fashion Week 2026. Raw gunia, open seams, and the philosophy of destroyed fabric — carried from Kampala to Kigali.

Model in strapless rust and sisal ruffle gown walking the Bobbin Case runway at Kigali Fashion Week 2026 under pink stage lighting

Wearable Wounds — Runway

Kigali Fashion Week · 2026
Model arms outstretched in layered gunia sack gown on the Bobbin Case runway at Kigali Fashion Week 2026 — full length

Arms Open — Gunia Gown

Runway · Womenswear
Back view of model in voluminous gunia sack dress with original market print lettering visible on the fabric — Bobbin Case runway Kigali 2026

The Sack Speaks

Runway · Back Detail
The Designer · Red Carpet
Mukasa Najib — The Fabric Murderer — at Kigali Fashion Week 2026 step and repeat, wearing cowrie shell denim vest and beret

Mukasa Najib — The Fabric Murderer

Red Carpet · Kigali 2026
Mukasa Najib flanked by collaborators wearing Bobbin Case gunia and African textile looks on the Kigali Fashion Week 2026 red carpet

Bobbin Case — The Team

Red Carpet · Group
Bobbin Case Fabric Murderer editorial poster — chrome mannequin in sculptural gunia dress against a dark atmospheric background with Wearable Wounds branding

Fabric Murderer — Editorial Poster

Wearable Wounds · Collection I

Philosophy

Every discarded sack
is a canvas waiting to speak

Sisal sacks from Ugandan markets. Recycled rope. Reclaimed fabric scraps. Metal grommets salvaged from industrial waste. In the hands of Mukasa Najib, nothing is refuse — everything is raw material.

Read the Philosophy