Hi, I’m Wunmi Mosaku
I created Iyadé as a solution to a very specific problem! Wanting to feel fashionable and still show up as a breastfeeding mother.
In 2024 I attended my first Comic Con and the schedule was tight. I had 10 mins built into my schedule to pump every few hours, but the schedule didn't allow for a costume change. No time to change into a pumping bra, change out of my fancy outfit, pump, and then get back into my fancy outfit.
And so I got designing!
Be first to see the pieces designed for nursing, movement, colour, comfort, and changing bodies.
I developed my first Iyadé dress and rigged my underwire bra so I could pump with support.
And it worked!
No one would ever know it was a nursing dress. I felt beautiful and oh so proud of solving the problem, and — most importantly — I felt like myself again!
It was wild to me that I'd spent a year wearing clothes I didn't feel good in so I just could pump or nurse. I couldn’t find anything that reflected how powerful, complex, and alive this new role of Mother really is. I’d been choosing between being fully available and accessible to my daughter, and feeling confident in my new mighty body? I picked my daughter every time — but it was a false choice, I’d just proven both could be done!
Get the first look at pieces designed for nursing, movement, comfort, and colour.
I learnt a lot with that first prototype and shared my discoveries with master tailors.
Eventually, I developed the Winged Let-Down, a patent-pending design, that allows for contouring of the body, and works with gravity for efficient milk let-down.
Every piece is made with handmade West African cotton batik, in collaboration with artisans in Ghana and Nigeria. Ghana is where my grandmother, the seamstress, was born, and Nigeria is where I, the actress not designer, was born.
This isn’t fast fashion.
This is intentional, small batch production of unique fabrics and designs — made to meet you exactly where you are, changing with each trimester and beyond
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