Chikodinaka Perpetua Chima is a Nigerian fashion designer and the creative director of HN Clothings, a contemporary label known for clean lines, feminine structure, and a thoughtful dialogue between African textile heritage and modern tailoring. Her work first drew wide notice with Threads of Heritage, the graduating collection she developed while studying Fashion and Textiles Design at Nkumba University. The collection, conceived as a conversation between East and West African materials, blended Ugandan kikoy with Nigeria’s Yoruba aso-oke, signaling Chima’s enduring interest in cross-cultural craft narratives.

Unveiled in 2020 and subsequently shown in Nigeria, Threads of Heritage earned a Special Recognition award at La Mode Magazine’s Green October Event in 2021, an annual platform that spotlights fashion and social impact. The collection’s visibility jumped when Nollywood actor Tomi Odunsi appeared in one of its looks on the Green October red carpet, introducing Chima’s aesthetic to a broader celebrity and media audience.

Following her breakout, Chima established HN Clothings as a vehicle for seasonal explorations of silhouette and mood. Early showings, Fragment of Light (2021), which treated illumination as both motif and metaphor, and Urban Muse (2021), which juxtaposed architectural lines with red-carpet glamour, sketched a designer balancing conceptual impulses with wearability. In 2022 she presented Wild Bloom in Lagos, offering softer movement and a romantic, confident femininity that would recur in later work.

As creative director, Chima frames HN Clothings as “contemporary luxury” with an emphasis on refined construction and a quietly dramatic finish. The brand’s signatures are as precise cuts, controlled volume, and a palette that favors depth over noise, an approach that has helped HN Clothings sit comfortably between occasion wear and modern day-to-evening dressing.

Recent collections have reinforced that direction while widening the brand’s vocabulary. Celestial Motion (2024) looked upward, rendering star-mapped curves and fluid drapes without losing the brand’s disciplined line, while Noir Renaissance (May 2025) sharpened tailoring and introduced a sultry minimalism that feels newly assertive. Together they mark Chima’s shift from promising graduate to designer with an increasingly distinct point of view in Nigeria’s competitive womenswear space.