Introduction to Torishéju
Few designers had a start like the founder of Torishéju, Torishéju Dumi. The designer based in London made her debut in the Paris Fashion Week in September 2023 with a show opened by Naomi Campbell and was closed by Paloma Elveser. She has been filled on the Dover Street Market since this first show season. Has been added to the Dover Street Market Paris Incubator since her second; And this year she was among the winners at the LVMH Prize 2025.
The Rise to Fame
Dumi is ready to go further. On Wednesday, she presented her third show in Paris Fashion Week, her first since the winning of LVMHS € 200,000 Savoir-Faire Prize. Campbell again opened the show, in which the signature of the designer contained the signature of the designer together with a sharp men’s clothing and new categories such as leather, denim and knitting goods.
Torishéju SS26
Torishéju SS26.
Photo: Isidore Montag / Gorunway.com
Building a Support Network
When I sit down with Dumi a few days before the show, she is honest that the last two years have created a lot of chances, but also a lot of pressure. "If someone gives you a room and a platform, you want to show that you have sorted everything and you work on something that is bigger and bigger and better," she says. "So I just have the feeling that there are many expectations. But I’m not trying to think about it because I have never thought about it – I just did what I want to do."
Background and Education
Dumi made her BA at London College of Fashion before getting a scholarship from the Sarabande Foundation from Lee Alexander McQueen to study the fashion design MA at Central Saint Martins. She was not ready to start a label when she graduated in 2021. After the Lockdown in 2022, Dumi began working on a collection with the title "Mami Wata", which was manufactured by Deadstock Fabric in the evening. When she published the pictures, it received a lot of attention from the press and social media and encouraged her to start a brand for real. "I said: ‘Ok, I want to do a collection, I want to make a show, but I want to do it in Paris."
Networking and Collaborations
Dumi’s journey was a hurricane of introductions, favors and accidental encounters of some of the most influential names of fashion. During her last studies in 2021, she met the stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who assessed the MA collections for the Central Saint Martins Graduate Awards. Dumi did not win prices because she had not submitted what was necessary in the letter, but the two who were connected on Instagram. When Dumi prepared for the show, Karefa-Johson offered to contract and help her. She also presented Dumi in Paris Pr Guru Lucien Pagès, who agreed to work with her.
Production and Manufacturing
In order to access the Deadstock, which made her first show collection, Dumi turned to friends and contacts, including designer Craig Green, who took over the "loads" of fabric. Sarah Burton, then creative director at Alexander McQueen, sent Dumi at the recommendation of the Sarabande Director Trino to a warehouse in North -London camp with Deadstock Fabrics and ingredients.
Expansion of the Torishéju World
Not long after Dumi’s debut show in September 2023, Adrian Joffe, President of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market, applied for a meeting with the designer. "We met in London and I rented a studio because my studio was my house at the time," says Dumi. "Now I know him, I notice that he would have worked pretty cute me at home." Joffe wanted her first collection in the Dover Street Market Paris in stock and offered to show pictures of other locations in Dover Street in Europe, Asia and the USA. "He called me and said: "Torishèju, you won’t believe it, every business has given up an order. "And that was without seeing the collection personally-we didn’t even have an exhibition room."
