MARIAN KWEI (FORMERLY KIHOGO) IS A LONDON BASED BRITISH GHANAIAN WHO IS THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LOVE ORGANISATION, AN EDITOR AT LARGE, A STYLIST AND REFINERY CONSULTANT FOR CELEBRITY/VIP TALENT, FASHION & RETAIL, TEXTILES, JEWELLERY, BEAUTY, ART, MUSIC, TELEVISION & FILM, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CORPORATE, COMMERCIAL, SOCIAL MEDIA, EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING.

SHE IS A DIGITAL MEDIA PIONEER HAVING BEEN THE FORMER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF STORY MAGAZINE, CONTRIBUTING ONLINE EDITOR OF PUSH IT MAGAZINE, FASHION EDITOR OF GLOSSY MAGAZINE AND UK EDITOR OF DIRRTY GLAM MAGAZINE. DIRRTY GLAM WAS A PIONEER OF ONLINE HIGH FASHION MEDIA. ON IT’S COVER WERE EMMA WATSON, SIENNA MILLER, MISCHA BARTON, BONNIE WRIGHT, LILY ALLEN, LUKE PASQUALINO, SKYE FERREIRA, MICHELLE RYAN, YVONNE STRAHOVSKI, PEACHES GELDOF, SHENAE GRIMES,

FOR THE PREMIERE, RED CARPET, PROMO AND EVENT SHE HAS STYLED TOLULA ADEYEMI (‘LAST CHANCE HARVEY’ AND MUSE TO VIVIENNE WESTWOOD), JIMMY AKINGBOLA (‘BEL-AIR’ AS BACKED BY WILL SMITH AND ‘IN THE LONG RUN’ WITH IDRIS ELBA), NATALIE PRESS (‘MY SUMMER OF LOVE’ WITH EMILY BLUNT), SHINGAI SHONIWA OF THE NOISETTES, AMA K ABEBRESE (‘BEASTS OF NO NATION’ WITH IDRIS ELBA AND BLITZ BAZAWULE’S ‘THE BURIAL OF KOJO’).

IN 2022 SHE ASSISTED CHERYL KONTEH (IDRIS ELBA AND KATE WINSLET) ON THE STYLING OF THE FEMALE CAST (NAZANIN BONIADI, SOPHIA NOMVETE, CYNTHIA ADDAI-ROBINSON, MORFYDD CLARK, EMA HORVATH OF AMAZON PRIME’S HIT SHOW ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS:THE RINGS OF POWER’ FOR VOGUE SPAIN, VOGUE INDIA, MODERN LUXURY’S ANGELENO, WHO WHAT WEAR AND GQ SPAIN ETC.

SHE IS A PIONEER OF SOCIAL MEDIA, HAVING AUTHORED NOW DEFUNCT AWARD WINNING (GLAM MEDIA BEST FASHION BLOG, NOMINATED FOR LUCKY MAGAZINE BEST FASHION VOICE AND COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE BEST FASHION BLOG) FASHION, BEAUTY & CULTURE PLATFORM, MARIANKIHOGO.COM FROM 2009-2013. THE EPONYMOUS SITE WAS LISTED IN BRITISH VOGUE’S DIGITAL SITE’S LIST OF RECOMMENDED BLOGS. HER SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE SAW HER GRACE WITH SOCIAL ICONS SUCH AS SUSIE BUBBLE (LAU) AND BIP LING THE FIRST MAINSTREAM MAGAZINE COVER TO FEATURE BLOGGERS. IT ALSO LED TO COLLABORATIONS WITH HUSSEIN CHALAYAN, DOLCE & GABBANA, MARC CAIN, ST MARTINS LANE HOTEL, MARC JACOBS, COTY, SANDERSON HOTEL ETC.

SHE IS A SOCIAL REPRESENTATION & INCLUSION PIONEER WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR MANY A WOMAN OF BLACK HERITAGE TO MAKE IT PAST THE GLASS CEILINGS.

PRESS AND FEATURES GARNERED INCLUDES THE NEW YORK TIMES, E! NEWS, THE NEW YORK POST, NY DAILY NEWS, THE SEATTLE TIMES, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON POST, MSNBC, THE GUARDIAN, THE EVENING STANDARD, VOGUE ITALIA, THE TELEGRAPH, GRAZIA MAGAZINE, COMPANY MAGAZINE, LUCKY MAGAZINE, THE CONSUL PRESS, ASOS MAGAZINE AND OTHER. ARTICLES AND POSTS (ACADEMIC, BLOGS, PLATFORMS AND OTHER) STATE THAT SHE IS A STYLE FORCE. AN ARTICLE BY ITALIAN JOURNALISTIC AGENCY, THE CONSUL PRESS COMPARED HER INFLUENCE ON FASHION IN THE WEST TO THE EFFECT AFRICA HAD ON THE WORK OF PICASSO AND MATISSE.

SHE LIVES IN LONDON, CONTRIBUTES TO FASHION & STYLE ARTICLES AND SEEKS TO MAKE THE FASHION INDUSTRY AND WORLD AT LARGE MORE SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE.