April 5, 2025
“Ich bin,” I Am: “For my Sisters, brothers,
Cousins, and all Eritreans
By Sabrina Solomon
Bisrat Tesfay Negassi is an Eritrean-born fashion designer, author, and cultural curator. Born in Asmara in the early 1970s, she fled with her family to Hamburg, Germany, during her childhood due to the daily atrocities that were committed by Ethiopia’s army of occupation in those times. She pursued a career in fashion design, establishing her label, Negassi, in Paris in 2004. Beyond her fashion career, Bisrat is a co-founder and curator of M.Bassy, a cultural space in Hamburg that showcases artists from Africa and the diaspora. She also serves as the head of the fashion and textiles collection at…
