About Lindah Lepou
Lindah Lepou was a fashion designer.
Lindah Aaron Lepou is a New Zealand-Samoan fashion designer.
Early life Lepou was born in Wellington and lived in Cannons Creek, Porirua until she was nine. She then moved to Samoa.
Lepou won a beauty pageant, with the prize of a trip to New Zealand, and moved to Auckland. In 1994 she entered her first fashion competition, the Benson & Hedges Awards; she entered a flax tutu, which the organisers placed in the Avant Garde category, however the following year the competition opened a Pacific Influences category for entries such as hers.
Lepou's work features traditional Samoan materials and skills such as tapa cloth and pandanus leaves.
Lepou won the Special Recognition Award at the 2021 Arts Pasifika Awards.
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