An award-winning Ghanaian-American designer and Unfashion visionary, Mimi Plange launched her own lifestyle brand in 2010 after a decade working in the New York fashion industry. Her designs have been sold in luxury boutiques in the United States, Kuwait, and Qatar, and she has showed her collections in New York, Sweden, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Paris, Nigeria, and Senegal. Ms. Plange’s many partnerships include collaborations with Manolo Blahnik, Roche Bobois, Instagram, LeBron James, Nike Basketball, and most recently The Shade Store. In 2014 she took part in the Celebration of Design event hosted by Michelle Obama at the White House. 
 
Ms. Plange’s garments have been displayed in museums around the world, including the Museum at FIT and SCAD’s Moot Gallery in Hong Kong, and recently became part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her clothes have been worn by First Lady Michelle Obama, Vanessa Hudgens, Serena Williams, Teri Hatcher, Rihanna, Gabrielle Union-Wade, and many others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, Vogue.com, EBONY, Vogue UK, Vogue India, WWD, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.
 
Ms. Plange has been a SCAD style mentor and is currently a mentor for Soho House’s Creative Futures Collective, an organization presenting opportunities to creative talent that have been traditionally overlooked. She has previously volunteered with the Lighthouse Guild, providing support to those who are blind and visually impaired, and collaborated with Let’s Get Ready, an educational organization that supports the futures of students with historically underrepresented backgrounds.
 
She is a graduate of the San Francisco Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and holds a degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.