Max osterweis biography
Five minutes with Max Osterweis (another Mrs. Obama fave).
Suno continues to defy style expectations
Max Osterweis began collecting kangas — traditional colorful, cotton African textiles — while visiting his mother in Lamu, Kenya.
Max osterweis biography
The Brooklyn-based screenwriter was disturbed by the post-election violence in the country in the late ’00s, and decided he wanted to do something to stimulate its economy — and that kangas were a great place to start.
Osterweis joined forces with Parsons grad and Gapand Generra designer Erin Beatty, whom he knew socially, in 2008, and Suno was born.
The pair went to work repurposing the patterned kanga fabrics into Suno’s first collection — 1,000 one-of-a-kind pieces, everything from skirts to pants, priced between $200 and $600.
“One of the things I felt when we started Suno was that I didn’t want it to be a charity thing,” says Osterweis, 40, an NYU film school grad who directed projects for Nike before his foray into fashion.
“I wanted to create jobs and help contribute to the growing middle class in