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Ghanaian fashion designer Papa Oppong Bediako has caught the eye of Rihanna with his talents after the singer congratulated him personally via an Twitter Direct message
Rihanna wrote “Congratulations man! This giving me chills! I want an autograph before you get too famous and forget about me”
An elated Papa Oppong Bediako couldn’t hide his Joy and would immediately retweet “Rihanna I adore you! Forever and ever! I can’t wait to meet you and scream and laugh and cry together!!! This can’t be real life!!! I’m gonna go cry right now. Be right back”
The show of respect and support between the two generated some reactions from followers and below are a few of such reactions
‘Don, you no dey find apprentice for the babylon there? I wan learn sow waa’ – @_naneee_
‘OH WOW ! congratulations I want to be like you when I grow’ – @Afrikan Dolly
‘Me too let me get my autograph now eh’ – @Benawyn
Below are some interesting facts you probably didn’t know about the 31-year old fashion genius
GRADUATED FROM RADFORD UNIVERSITY, ACCRA-GHANA
Papa Oppong Bediako is a product of Radford University in Accra, Ghana where he studied fashion and would after graduation move to New York where he is currently based
FEATURED ON CNN
The fashion prodigy was in 2015 featured in a CNN documentary and was described and is described as having ‘a level of creativity is one that even surpasses that of some seasoned designers. He pushes the boundaries of design through mixing art with fashion’
RECOGNITION BY FORBES
Papa Oppong in 2015 again was featured by Forbes as one of the top 15 young African creative rebranding the continent and this would lead to an opportunity to have his intern in Washington DC
SISTER DERBY’s STYLIST
‘Deborah Vanessa. Love her! She’s such a fun woman to work with and it also helps that she’s super fit and always so well-groomed. Its always easy working with her. She’s also very sweet and has a great personality and this is important to me because I feed off people’s energy’
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