Ophelia Crossland’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ghanaian fashion designer and businesswoman
A.K.A. Ophelia Akweley Okyere-Darko
Is Fashion designer
From Ghana
Type Fashion
Gender female
Birth

16 March 1983, Osu, Ghana

Age 37 years
Star sign Pisces

Ophelia Akweley Okyere-Darko (born March 16, 1983) (née Crossland) is a Ghanaian fashion designer and the Creative Director of Ophelia Crossland Designs Ltd and Ohemaa Kids.

Early life

Ophelia Crossland was born to Leonard Brighton Crossland and Mrs Sarah Crossland and grew up in Accra with her twin brother and her elder sister Velma Owusu-Bempah. She attended St Mary’s Senior High School (Ghana) in Korle Gonno, Accra and proceeded to the Vogue Style School of Fashion and Design by Joyce Ababio where she was adjudged best graduating student in 2004.

Career

Ophelia Crossland started her fashion career in 2004 and has made clothes for prominent personalities in Ghana including the former Speaker of Parliament, Joyce Bamford-Addo, the First Female Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Woods, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Gifty Anti, and Joselyn Dumas.

She was named as Swarovski’s West African Ambassador in 2017. Swarovski selected her to represent Ghana at their Fashion Exhibition in Dubai. She also costumed outfits for the cast of Shirley Frimpong Manso’s Love Or Something Like That in 2014. She was also credited with the making of the gown Ghana’s Miss Universe representative wore on the night of the finals in Thailand.
In September 2019, Crossland was announced as Africa and Ghana’s sole representative at the Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition at the China National Silk Museum Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province The theme for the 2019 exhibition was “Weddings” and she created the Qipao with Ghana’s Kente

Personal life

She is married to Ghanaian Broadcaster and fashion designer, Kofi Okyere Darko (KOD) and they have two daughters.

Awards

Womenswear designer of the Year at the 2018 Glitz Style Awards

She also won the best wardrobe and costume designer for her work with Love Or Something Like That at the Ghana Movie Awards.

Winner of the Swarovski Training Workshop Award and Swarovski Brand Ambassador

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