OUR STORY

AMAYI is a London fashion house.

It begins in memory — and in a particular kind of memory, the interrupted kind: the abundant future that was imagined and never arrived, held onto anyway.

The first edition is drawn from that inheritance.

It is made for a woman who is several people at once, and who dresses accordingly.

Silhouettes move between the soft and the structured, carrying proportions across generations without repeating them, and fabric is conceived in-house so that the reference sits in the cloth itself rather than in the styling.

The intention is simple. Every piece is conceived as a future heirloom — kept, shared, or passed from mother to daughter.

OUR ARCHIVE

These references are treated as working material rather than narrative content. Techniques such as weaving, braiding, embroidery, and print translation are studied as methods and applied across garments in varied constructions. The archive supports continuity: garments are revisited, refined, and built upon over time.

Named for the Shona word for mother, AMAYI approaches each piece as a future heirloom—designed to be worn, kept, and passed on.

OUR FOUNDER

Amayi was founded in London in 2026 by Joanna Masiyiwa. The house is structured around an archive, producing work in limited, numbered editions intended to last.