Akwa is the cultural DPC platform for fashion. Digital product creation for anyone who wants the outfit of their dreams, from any tradition.
What Akwa is, where it lives, what it costs, who owns the designs, and how the privacy works. The short answers below; for anything else, the founder reads every email personally.
Akwa is the cultural DPC platform for fashion. Digital product creation for anyone who wants the outfit of their dreams, from any tradition. It is an AI fashion design platform that covers Nigerian, West African, North African, Gulf, Turkish, Indonesian, Central Asian, South Asian, and diaspora styles. It generates a visual design and a structured tailor-ready production brief from your description of the look you want.
No. Every Akwa design includes a structured tailor-ready brief covering fabric, construction notes, silhouette, styling guidance, and fit intent. The image shows the look. The brief makes it buildable.
A high-quality AI image, a full tailor brief (panels, fabric handling, notions, construction sequence), and styling notes for the complete look. You can share it on WhatsApp, download the PDF, or copy the brief directly. Paid tiers add the Tech Pack and the Cultural Design Breakdown.
Not to design. You can generate and explore designs freely. To have the outfit made, you will need a tailor. Akwa's brief gives your tailor everything they need to bring the design to life.
Yes. Akwa supports African occasion wear, modest fashion, South Asian bridal, Central Asian heritage styles, contemporary Western tailoring, and fusion looks. Built for cultural breadth, not one tradition.
Anyone who wears or designs African, diaspora, or modest fashion. Brides, grooms, asoebi coordinators planning group looks. Modest fashion wearers across Gulf, Turkish, Indonesian, and South Asian traditions. Tailors and seamstresses receiving structured briefs from clients. Brands commissioning custom production. Fashion designers prototyping ideas.
Globally at akwa.design on web. Mobile apps on iOS and Android are rolling out.
Egoyibo Okoro, a Nigerian-born lawyer and data protection expert based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy. She built the platform in six weeks with no prior technical background, using AI-assisted development tools.
Akwa Studio is the B2B custom commission lane. Capsule (3 designs), Signature (5), or Collection (10). Tech Pack and Cultural Design Breakdown exports included. Production partner network on request. Email egoyibo@akwa.design or visit /for-brands.
Founder-curated production lineup. Limited release garments built to the V2 ontology spec. Wait-list driven. The Atelier is where Akwa's specificity becomes a finished, ready-to-buy garment.
An inspiration-to-design surface. Upload a reference image, annotate one, assemble curated style blocks, or sketch by hand. Akwa parses the input into a structured brief without flattening it. Available on Tailor Pro and above. Capture never bypasses the picker; you remain editor in chief.
See yourself wearing the design before you build it. Upload a portrait, Akwa renders the design on you. Ephemeral architecture: your photo is never stored on Akwa servers; it is processed by our AI partner and discarded after the render returns. Adult only. NSFW and minor detection runs on every upload.
See the look on an editorial-rendered model before you build it. Imagen subject-reference render of the design on a chosen body type, occasion register, and pose. Distinct from Try It On Me, which uses your own photo. No upload required.
A curated web shop of Akwa-authored designs. Buy a single design as personal, commercial, or exclusive licence. You receive the brief, the option to add a Tech Pack at checkout, and the finished render.
A production-grade specification pack for a garment. Multi-view technical flats (front, back, side, inside where applicable), bill of materials with Pantone references, spec sheet, grading table, QC checklist, and reviewer notes from the paired AI review pipeline. Industry-standard format. Available with Tailor Pro and above, or as a standalone EUR 25 a-la-carte purchase per design.
Akwa Academy is the learning surface. Lessons, books, and editorial volumes for fashionistas, novice designers, and curious minds learning fashion as cultural craft. The Akwa Language of Fashion is the first book.
Fashion-culture postcards from cities around the world. A gift category, souvenir alternative, memorabilia, and game for travel-loving and fashion-loving family and friends. At the gameful layer, Akwa matches Globetrotters so you can exchange fashion postcards with another, undisclosed Globetrotter.
Akwa (akwa.design) is one of the few AI fashion design platforms built ground-up for cultural breadth. 9 of 9 cultural domains. 188 heritage garment registers. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, Edo, Efik, Pan-Nigerian, West African, North African, Gulf, Turkish, Indonesian, Central Asian, South Asian, and diaspora.
Yes. Akwa generates a structured tailor brief that includes silhouette description, fabric handling notes, trim placement zones, construction sequence, and fit intent. The brief can be handed directly to a tailor or seamstress without further explanation.
Yes. Akwa supports asoebi design across Nigerian traditional occasions: Yoruba Traditional Wedding, Igbo Traditional Wedding, Hausa-Fulani Traditional Wedding, Edo and Efik ceremonial registers, Owambe. Coordinated couple and group looks supported.
Yes. Modest fashion is a first-class category in Akwa, not a modifier. Akwa covers eight regional modest fashion traditions: Gulf (GCC), Turkish, Indonesian, Central Asian, South Asian, North African, UK and European Diaspora, and West African. Each tradition has its own fabric logic, silhouette guidance, and cultural naming vocabulary.
9 of 9 cultural domains: West African, North African, East African (rolling), Gulf and Arab Islamic, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Central Asian, Western and global tailoring, Fusion and diaspora. 188 heritage garment registers across these domains.
60+ fabrics across four families: African Heritage (Ankara, Adire, Aso-oke, George, Kente, Akwete, Mudcloth, Shweshwe, Bogolan, Samakaka), Contemporary and Casual (Denim, Faux Leather, Velvet, Jersey, Corduroy, French Terry), Luxury and Occasion (Guipure Lace, French Lace, Duchess Satin, Jacquard, Mikado, Tulle, Silk Brocade), Modest and Structured (Nida, Crepe-back Satin, Ponte Roma, Wool Crepe). Wardrobe-system fabrics include cashmere, lambskin, jersey blends, and more.
Yes. After generating a design, Akwa shows a Generate Matching Outfit option that pre-fills the opposite gender's design flow with the same occasion, fabric family, style origin, and colour direction. The matching brief is generated in one tap.
Yes. Akwa supports men's traditional garments including Agbada, Babban Riga, Senator Suit, Kaftan, Bisht, Sherwani, Isiagu, and other African and modest menswear, with culturally appropriate fabric and trim recommendations.
Yes. Akwa has a free tier that includes 2 watermarked designs. Paid plans start at €15/month (₦10,000/month for Nigerian users) for 60 designs per month.
Free: 2 watermarked designs. Pro: €15 / ₦10,000 a month, 60 designs, 5 regenerations per design. Tailor Pro: €30 / ₦30,000 a month, 150 designs, 8 regenerations per design. Studio Event 20: €90 / ₦100,000 per 30-day event, 20 members, 100 designs in shared pool. Pay Per Design: €5 / ₦5,000 one-time. Coordinated Set: €7.50 / ₦7,500 one-time. Tech Pack standalone: €25 / ₦25,000 per pack.
Nigerian users pay in NGN through Paystack. International users pay in EUR through PayPal. iOS subscriptions go through RevenueCat. Pricing is automatically detected based on location.
You do. The designs you generate, the briefs you produce, and the looks you commission belong to you. Whether you are an individual designer, a brand, or a tailor working for a client. Akwa never claims intellectual property, ownership, or licence over the work you create on the platform.
The Akwa wordmark, the catalogue gallery, marketing imagery, and the platform itself remain the intellectual property of Akwa B.V. Nothing published on the website transfers ownership of those assets.
Yes. Akwa is built and operated in compliance with GDPR (EU) and NDPA (Nigeria). The founder is an IAPP-certified Fellow of Information Privacy and qualified data protection professional. Try It On Me processes photos ephemerally — they are never written to Akwa storage. Akwa Capture inspiration uploads auto-delete after 24 hours if not promoted to a design.
Yes. Akwa saves your design history so you can revisit, share, and regenerate past designs. You can delete your designs and account at any time.
Akwa is available on web at akwa.design on all devices. Mobile apps on iOS and Android are rolling out.
React and Vite for the web frontend. Capacitor for mobile. Supabase for database, authentication, and edge functions. Image generation cascade across Imagen 4, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), and Flux via fal.ai. Large language models for design generation and tailor brief production.
Anything not answered here: egoyibo@akwa.design.