Ask Lateefat Tobun what her workshops are really about and she will not start with software. She starts with the room — who is in it, who feels they are allowed to be there, and what changes when the tools are simply handed over.
Her fashion-tech bootcamps introduce digital couture, illustration and AI tools to people who rarely see themselves represented in those spaces.
Give people the tools and the room, and the creativity takes care of itself.
— Lateefat Tobun
In conversation with Fashion Tech, she is clear that empowerment is not a slogan but a method — structured, repeatable, and measured by who walks out able to keep making on their own.
It is an optimism grounded in evidence. Cohort after cohort, the work that emerges makes the case better than any manifesto could.
