{"id":1560,"date":"2016-08-03T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2022-09-04T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T10:30:29","slug":"cameroonian-fashion-designer-patou-manga-dead-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-patou-manga-dead-at-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonian fashion designer Patou Manga dead at 38!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We realise we are late in bringing you this sad news but Africa has lost one of her foremost fashion designers. Patou Manga, known for his signature fashion pieces \u201cPatoustyle\u201d which brought him close to hip hop legends and fashionistas like P. Diddy, Kanye West and other big names in the fashion industry, is dead. Patou Manga, who is Cameroonian but also based in Paris is known internationally for his dandy urban style, died on Sunday July 24 2016 after having a cardiac arrest. He was just 38 years old. He is known for his iconic fashion shows in Cameroon and the diaspora. Known for his swagger, street style and dapper looks, he was a force to reckon with in the African fashion industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1569\" src=\"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/cameroonian-fashion-designer-pat.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was one of the designers at first Africa Fashion Week Amsterdam held in 2014 (video below). Africa Web TV\u2019s senior reporter\/producer Phay Mutepa met and spoke with him briefly during that show \u201cYou could see he had loads of talent. It is such a great loss to the fashion industry and he will be missed. He was really creative in a classy way. He makes designs I can take from the ramp straight to the streets\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video of his collections during the Africa Fashion Week Amsterdam 2014. Patou himself could be seen from 17.10 minutes of the video. He will surely be missed but his legacy will live on. Rest in Peace Patou Manga.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Patou Manga - Africa Fashion Week Amsterdam 2014\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bdm7AOPFjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We realise we are late in bringing you this sad news but Africa has lost one of her foremost fashion designers. Patou Manga, known for his signature fashion pieces \u201cPatoustyle\u201d which brought him close to hip hop legends and fashionistas like P. Diddy, Kanye West and other big names in the fashion industry, is dead&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[508,695,697,696,694,693,434],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-africa-fashion-week-amsterdam","tag-african-fashion-industry","tag-kanye-west","tag-p-diddy","tag-patou-manga","tag-patoustyle","tag-phay-mutepa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africawebtv.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}